The Near-Earth Object Surveyor, or NEO Surveyor, is the U.S. space agency’s first infrared space telescope specifically ...

NASA is taking a bold step to safeguard Earth from cosmic threats with its NEO Surveyor mission. The near-Earth object (NEO) ...

Scientists estimate there are thousands of asteroids large enough to destroy a city near Earth. NASA is sending a telescope into space to find them.

Scientists gear up to explain significance of event while preventing public panic over unfounded fears of an asteroid strike ...

Space is full of rocks. Most of them quietly mind their own business, drifting on orbits that will never come anywhere near ...

There are tens of thousands of near-Earth objects (NEOs) that represent some of the most easily accessible resources in the ...

ExLabs is proposing ’Apophis EX,’ designed to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis during its rare 2029 Earth flyby.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has successfully completed a flyby of a three-mile-wide asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, sending back a video composed of 37 images. Called (52246) Donaldjohanson, it’s the ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small ...