An asteroid is headed towards Earth. It's not going to hit us, but it is going to hang out for a couple of months. A recently ...

The mirrors for NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other ...

The asteroid 2006 RH120 orbited Earth for a full year, from July 2006 to July 2007. In 2020, a mini-moon was discovered, ...

Astronomer Paul Wiegert had found a scenario in which Apophis could be sent careening into Earth in 2029. But we’d have to be extremely unlucky.

Asteroid Apophis doesn’t currently pose a threat to Earth when it passes by in a few years, but an astrophysicist has ...

NASA's NEO Surveyor, an infrared space telescope, is under construction at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, aimed at detecting ...

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For the asteroid named for an Egyptian god of chaos ... The European Space Agency, NASA's counterpart across the pond, plans to launch a spacecraft of its own called Ramses. The Ramses spacecraft ...

LYON, France–The European Space Agency (ESA) is gearing up for the launch of its Hera mission, which will survey the Dimorphos asteroid after NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART ...

One year before impact, space agencies from every country launch nuclear deflection missiles with hopes of pushing the giant asteroid away from our planet - but the mission fails. FEMA orders mass ...