NASA has alerted the public about asteroid 2024 JM2, which is set to make its closest approach to Earth on May 3, 2025.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently headed toward Jupiter on an asteroid-hopping mission, has captured an impressive close-up ... NASA asteroid surveyor snaps stunning views of Earth and moon ...

Throughout the next 25 months, the SPHEREx observatory will orbit Earth ... identifying objects of scientific interest that telescopes like Hubble and Webb can then go study up close.

It's one of the larger near-Earth objects to fly by this year ... while upcoming missions like the NEO Surveyor will take detection to the next level.

They've proven indispensable to missions including NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment and the Near-Earth Object Surveyor. Despite a student workforce diversifying into areas like accounting and ...

for Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor. If scientists really want to find out if life exists on distant Earth-like planets, they’ll eventually need LUVOIR—or something very much like it. The LUVOIR ...

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On Thursday, September 1, 1859, a 33-year-old brewer and amateur astronomer named Richard Carrington climbed the stairs ...

This week we look at the "Kessler Syndrome," and how a chain reaction of orbital collisions could jeopardize infrastructure ...

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in a matter of hours. Talk of asteroids coming too close for comfort to Earth may remind ...