NASA’s NEO Surveyor, a spacecraft specifically designed to detect asteroids that could threaten Earth, is on track for a 2027 ...

The spacecraft captured the Red Planet and its enigmatic moons, Deimos and Phobos, marking its first deep-space imaging ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by ...

As part of its ongoing efforts to enhance research and practical applications in asteroid observation, the Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, ...

and explored the specialized software used for tracking and analyzing asteroids. During the campaign, participants engaged in hands-on activities, recording precise orbital and photometric data of ...

If you want to know about Hera, a satellite hurtling through deep space toward two asteroids, you can just ask it ... Hera will reach its closest point to Mars on March 12. It will use the ...

Why Tracking Asteroids Matters NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), along with global observatories such as Pan-STARRS, the Catalina Sky Survey, and NEOWISE, plays a crucial role in ...