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This frame from a movie shows the progression of NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (NEOWISE)...
Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that orbit the Sun like the planets with orbits that come within...
On February 15, 2013, a 45-meter asteroid called Duende (formerly 2012 DA14) passed within 28,000 kilometers of...
June 30 may be International Asteroid Day, but at NASA, every day is asteroid day! So what do we know about the...
DART Mission: Live Q&A with NASA Planetary Defender. Josh Handal, NASA Public Affairs Officer; Dr. Kelly Fast,...
NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office is in charge of finding, tracking and monitoring near-Earth objects and...
The NEOWISE mission, NASA’s asteroid-hunting space telescope, retired in August 2024 after over a decade of...
NASA NEOWISE, snapped this infrared picture of near-Earth object 1998 KN3 as it zips past a cloud of dense gas and...
The NEOCam sensor right is the lynchpin for the proposed Near Earth Object Camera, or NEOCam, space mission left.
This frame from a movie shows the progression of NASA Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer NEOWISE...
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson points to a model of the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope (NEO Surveyor) as...
NASA's NEOWISE mission ended on Aug. 8, 2024, after more than a decade of discovering and tracking near-Earth...
How would humanity respond if we discovered an asteroid headed for Earth? NASA’s upcoming documentary, "Planetary...
NASA will host a media briefing at 3:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 20 to discuss the newly released quick-look summary...
The NEOWISE mission, NASA’s asteroid-hunting space telescope, is retiring in summer 2024 after over a decade of...
The red dot at the center of this image is the first near-Earth asteroid discovered by NASA Wide-Field Infrared...
Asteroid 1997 QK1 is shown to be an elongated, peanut-shaped near-Earth object in this series of 28 radar images...
In July 1994, astronomers around the world watched as the fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into the...
This video file contains animations of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and an interview with NASA Deputy Project Scientist...
OSIRIS-REx Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta, University of Arizona, discusses the flyby of asteroid 2012 DA14.
Near-Earth asteroids like Bennu pose a potential danger to our planet, so it's important to predict their orbits...
Data from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has led to revisions in the estimated population of near-Earth...
These first radar images of 2015 TB145 from the National Science Foundation 1,000-foot 305-meter Arecibo Observatory...
This mosaic shows NASA's radar observations in one-minute increments of asteroid 2024 MK, a 500-foot-wide...