Every day, software at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory scans the orbits of thousands of known near-Earth objects and flags ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WISE, NEOWISE's predecessor mission, imaged the entire sky in the mid-infrared range. NASA/JPL/Caltech/UCLA The NASA project ...

Asteroids 2026 LD and 2026 KM3, both comparable in size to airplanes, will make a close approach to Earth on June 9, 2026.

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 ...

In the darkness of space that surrounds Earth, a group of small, icy bodies are swarming after being expelled from the farther reaches of the solar system. The mysterious objects, which are not quite ...

A newly discovered asteroid will pass Earth at a distance of roughly 90,000 km (56,000 miles) tomorrow, in what astronomers ...

Telescope facilities across the world are watching the skies for rocky remnants from outer space on a collision course with planet Earth. Currently one or two of these so called ‘Near Earth Objects’ ...

The space industry is surging. In coming years, nearly 10,000 spacecraft are slated to launch into low-Earth orbit for a variety of purposes, such as global surveillance, space tourism, and satellite ...

A new multiagency report outlines how the U.S. could become better prepared for near-Earth objects — asteroids and comets whose orbits come within 30 million miles of Earth — otherwise known as NEOs.

Every day, a NASA program quietly recalculates the orbits of thousands of space rocks and flags each one that will pass ...

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 ...