The NEO Surveyor mission is the first space telescope that'll be dedicated to locating asteroids that could threaten Earth, ...

That's why the tracking efforts continue ... This could involve a mission similar to NASA's DART, which altered the path of ...

NASA has begun work on an asteroid-hunting telescope to protect Earth from disaster. NEO Surveyor is a new space telescope made to advance NASA’s planetary defense efforts by finding near ...

NASA has cleared ... “Yes, the asteroid is probably fairly large, probably between 1,903 and 4,265 feet ” Chodas said in a statement on Monday. Astronomers have been tracking this asteroid ...

On its way to the Trojan swarms, the spacecraft made a pit stop at a rock named Dinkinesh — and the images it sent back revealed that this asteroid ... part of NASA’s broader effort to glean ...

An independent review board gave NASA’s Psyche mission the green light and its seal of approval following a scathing review in 2022. The Psyche mission, which will head to the asteroid belt ...

That was the case until recently — thanks to the expansion of the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) system into the southern hemisphere. ATLAS, funded by NASA and run by the ...

If successful, the OSIRIS-REx mission, a joint effort between NASA and scientists at the University of Arizona, would mark the third asteroid sample, and by far the largest, ever returned to Earth ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced Friday that the agency has approved a new infrared space telescope in the effort to help ... a near-Earth object is an asteroid or comet that approaches ...

led space mission to have a spacecraft fly by the asteroid to get more information; or creating an effort to build a ... In the meantime, NASA is on track to launch a new asteroid-finding ...

Meet the scientist who helped build NASA's asteroid response plan US Representatives worry Trump's NASA budget plan will make it harder to track dangerous ... human efforts to avoid going the ...