A clear look at the discovery of 40,000 near-Earth asteroids, how scientists track them, and the missions working to keep our ...
A minimum of three “city-killer” asteroids have been spotted near Venus, and they could strike Earth in the next few weeks without warning. “City-killer” asteroids are defined as asteroids reaching 40 ...
Twenty years ago, Congress gave NASA a directive: find 90% of the near-Earth asteroids that could potentially harm our little world. Since then, astronomers have made major progress tracking down the ...
NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office is responsible for finding and tracking potentially dangerous asteroids before ...
The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...
Rising out of the remote Mojave Desert, NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar is a solitary satellite dish that communicates with spacecraft. In its downtime, the facility's antennas can track objects ...