A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The NEO Surveyor, set to launch in 2027, is the first spacecraft specifically ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Like a lot of cool things, the field of asteroid defense began with a bunch ... the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) — a NASA-funded asteroid detection program with ...

That’s partly because this planetary defense system does have an element ... meaning this can be used to accurately calculate an asteroid’s dimensions. NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

Asteroids threaten Earth, prompting NASA to develop defense strategies ... ATLAS is an early warning system that scans the sky for approaching asteroids, giving Earth valuable time to prepare ...

A NASA planetary defense mission will ride to space atop ... probe on its way to the binary asteroid system Didymos. Ten months later, DART slammed into the smaller space rock in the system ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

Despite a brief panic, asteroid 2024 YR4 isn't likely to hit us anytime soon, but we can still study the asteroid up close to ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...