Research evaluates the likelihood of debris from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS reaching Earth, analyzing gas, dust and larger ...

The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the atmosphere after ...

The comet will come much closer to Jupiter in March, zipping within 33 million miles. It will be the mid-2030s before it ...

As the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS sweeps through the inner solar system, it has become a magnet for both scientific ...

The Pan-STARRS1 survey telescope on Maui has discovered an object that is headed for Earth’s orbit. This isn’t out of the ordinary except that this object is apparently not an asteroid. In fact, it ...

A strange near-Earth object (NEO) recently spotted orbiting close to our planet turns out to be the booster from a rocket from the 1960s, NASA has announced. Object 2020 SO was at first thought to be ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is introducing a new Web site that will provide a centralized resource for information on near-Earth objects – those asteroids and comets that can approach Earth. The ...

Humans can detect buried objects without touching them, sensing faint pressure ripples in sand. Scientists are calling this ...

The year 2020 is clearly out to make its mark in a big way: a global pandemic, massive wildfires across the Western United States, huge demonstrations for social justice around the globe. Here’s ...

Fifty-four years ago, NASA launched the Surveyor 2, an uncrewed mission to explore the surface of the Moon. Alas, the spacecraft went into a tumble en route after a failed course-correction burn, and ...