The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

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 ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

2024 in Chile through the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). Lindley Johnson, Planetary Defense Officer Emeritus with NASA, said the asteroid's future orbit in ...

The 776th session of the Xiangshan Science Conference, themed "Key Scientific and Engineering Challenges in Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) Defense," convenes on March 13 at the Xiangshan Hotel in Beijing.

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...

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

According to Lindley Johnson, NASA's Emeritus Planetary Defense Officer, such an asteroid impact on the ... to learn even more about the early solar system and the origin of asteroids.