The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and tracks ...
Asteroid 2014 TN17, measuring 540 feet wide, will safely pass Earth on March 26, 2025, despite being classified as ...
the mission is tasked with identifying at least two-thirds of the estimated 25,000 asteroids larger than that size believed to be circling Earth. Within its first decade, astronomers expect to ...
A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...
Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by ...
NASA has announced that the 540-foot-wide asteroid 2014 TN17 will pass Earth on March 26, 2025. Despite the pass being 5 ...