A clear look at the discovery of 40,000 near-Earth asteroids, how scientists track them, and the missions working to keep our ...
The number 40,000 might not sound particularly dramatic, but it represents humanity's growing catalog of near-Earth asteroids ...
NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office is responsible for finding and tracking potentially dangerous asteroids before ...
Two house-sized asteroids are making close approaches to Earth this week, drawing attention from NASA's planetary defense ...
The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...
NASA is closely tracking two asteroids, 2025 VW and 2025 VC2 that are around 1-2 million miles away from the planet.
The aging infrastructure of the Deep Space Network is operating at capacity and in desperate need of an upgrade. The latest ...
Meteorite hunting is a side quest for Perseverance, whose primary job is to search for signs of ancient life in Jezero and ...
More than five years into its mission, NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is still ambling across the surface of the red planet, ...
Matter with “forbidden” symmetries was once thought to be confined to lab experiments, but is now being found in some of the ...
NASA’s Europa Clipper and Europe’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer—will observe the comet on its trip back out of the solar system ...
The Perseverance rover found the strange rock near the rim of the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometres) Jezero crater, which ...