To close this gap, NASA is building the Near-Earth Object Surveyor, a space telescope designed to detect asteroids using ...
"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies." ...
The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...
New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought.
Recently discovered asteroid 2023 DW has been predicted to have a close encounter with Earth on Feb. 14, 2046. See NASA's ...
Asteroid 2025 VP1 is hurtling through space at more than 18,300 miles per hour, the space agency has reported.
Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) observatory.
A beloved Christmas tree tradition is returning to Manhattan this holiday season. The Origami Holiday Tree at the American Museum of Natural History opens to the public on Monday. The colorful, ...