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

Most asteroids that pass by Earth are largely harmless as they reside in fairly secure orbits, according to Professor Monica Grady of the Open University. However, Apophis is an Earth-crossing ...

"Scientists continuously monitor Earth-crossing asteroids, whose paths intersect Earth's orbit, and near-Earth asteroids that approach Earth's orbital distance to within about 28 million miles and ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour. The space rock known as "2025 DL22" will make the closest ...

What is the 'alien' that has been found near the South Pole? NASA is keeping a close watch on three asteroids making near-Earth approaches today. One of them, named 2025 CF, will pass within just ...

You have to try." Following a further launch next year, the company plans to develop ways to mine near-Earth asteroids for the valuable, concentrated metals some contain – particularly the ...

The Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor is a $1.4-billion infrared telescope with a single mission: to hunt asteroids and comets that could pose a danger to Earth. Astronomers have already identified ...

Asteroid's size and speed Asteroid 535844 is an Apollo asteroid, distinguished by having crossing ... close to the Earth. Both systems monitor the sky around the clock for asteroids, providing ...

On 2023-03-21 I observed asteroid 2023 DZ2 remotely at 0.355-m telescope of Abbey Ridge Observatory (Canada). Image: stacked 52x60 sec. Source - Филипп Романов (Filipp Romanov).

LOS ANGELES – There is a non-zero chance that somewhere in the nearby solar system is a rock that might kill us all. This stony assassin may well be orbiting the sun at this very moment ...