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

TN17, a massive space rock the size of the Taj Mahal, is racing towards Earth at 77,282 km/h and is classified as potentially ...

The work carried out so far is massive: more than 500 kilometres of road have been upgraded and the project is entering its final phase. Over the past two years, a total of 8.7 million square metres ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted ...

The Startup Pulsar Fusion is proposing a 2 Megawatt nuclear fusion orbital components for 2027. Pulsar has now proceeded to ...

These are asteroids whose orbit brings them within 195 million km (121 million miles) of the Sun. "Any asteroid we detect is generally a fragment of a much larger body that was formed at the birth ...

But HERA will not reach the asteroid — which is 11 million kilometers from Earth in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — until late 2026. On the long voyage there, the spacecraft swung ...

But HERA will not reach the asteroid—which is 11 million kilometers (seven million miles) from Earth in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter—until late 2026. On the long voyage there ...

An asteroid is a metallic or rocky body that orbits ... that 99942 Apophis would pass as close as 19,600 miles (31.500 km) but should miss the planet. Bennu and 1950 DA are two asteroids that ...

Hayabusa2 left the asteroid Ryugu, about 300 million kilometers away, a year ago. After it released the capsule, it moved away from Earth to capture images of the capsule descending toward the ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...