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

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Related: The best Hubble Space Telescope photos of all time The newfound asteroids help refine the ... changes its point of view as it moves in Earth orbit. To find these trails, scientists ...

But HERA will not reach the asteroid – which is 11 million kilometers (seven million miles) from Earth in the asteroid belt between ... snapping around 600 pictures, including rare ones of Deimos. The ...

The Near-Earth Object Surveyor is a $1.4-billion infrared telescope with a single mission: to hunt asteroids and comets that could pose a danger to Earth. Astronomers have already identified ...

You have to try." Following a further launch next year, the company plans to develop ways to mine near-Earth asteroids for the valuable, concentrated metals some contain – particularly the ...

By dipping into the inner solar system, these asteroids are often removed from the gaps in a very simple way: by hitting an inner planet like Mars, Venus or Earth. Scientists also found that these ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth ...

LOS ANGELES – There is a non-zero chance that somewhere in the nearby solar system is a rock that might kill us all. This stony assassin may well be orbiting the sun at this very moment ...