Slated for a 2027 launch, NASA's NEO Surveyor mission is advancing through critical testing phases to enhance our planetary ...

NASA’s NEO Surveyor, a next-generation infrared space telescope, is making significant progress as it moves closer to its ...

NASA’s NEO Surveyor mission, launching in 2027, uses advanced infrared tech to detect asteroids and comets, ensuring ...

The mirrors for NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other spacecraft components is accelerating. NASA's new asteroid-hunting spacecraft ...

Planetary defense is a global imperative, of course, but for the time being, NASA — and, by extension, the United States — is ...

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...

"Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us." ...

Blind spots remain in the southern hemisphere and in the case of asteroids coming at us from behind the sun. The hope is that upcoming missions like NASA’s NEO Surveyor may help fill this gap.

NASA has tracked the asteroid's trajectory using data from observatories such as Pan-STARRS and the Catalina Sky Survey, with missions like NEOWISE and the forthcoming NEO Surveyor providing ...