NASA is about to begin a massive hunt for hidden asteroids, and may uncover city-destroying space rocks we’ve missed.

NASA's $1.4 billion NEO Surveyor space telescope is designed to spot and track potentially hazardous asteroids, offering ...

Surveyor, a $1.4-billion infrared telescope designed to detect asteroids and comets that could pose a threat to Earth.

Ground telescopes have offered our best asteroid data so far, but spotting dark, tumbling rocks from Earth is like finding ...

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

Back in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the moon, scientists knew of just 31 other moons in our ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

Around 66 million years ago an asteroid hurtled towards Earth and smashed into the planet, setting off a chain of events that ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...