The Ramses mission will rendezvous with Apophis in February 2029, two months before its closest approach to Earth on Friday April 13. It will then accompany the asteroid as it approaches Earth.

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The NEO Surveyor, set to launch in 2027, is the first spacecraft ...

NASA is tracking two bus-sized asteroids in the vicinity of the Earth that are whizzing through space at some 11,000 to 24,000 miles per hour. A space rock known as "2025 HP22," measuring ...

NASA is also tracking two airplane-sized asteroids—the "2024 BF" and "2025 GT1"), spanning around 110 to 140 feet in diameter—that will zoom past our planet on Thursday at a distance of around ...

KNOXVILLE — A University of Tennessee geologist is part of NASA’s latest mission, which seeks to study the two largest known asteroids in the solar system. Dr. Harry Y. “Hap&#8221… ...

Despite popular belief, not all space rocks with tails are comets. In fact, asteroids with tails are by far some of the rarest asteroids that we know of, and NASA volunteers just helped find 15 ...

From MIT to NASA, several possible asteroid deflection ideas have been proposed. MIT scientists proposed sending a “scout” first to “gain specific measurements of the asteroid or two scouts: one to ...

NASA now has an extra set of eyes on asteroids. The agency’s latest partnership with Slooh, a private Internet technology company that has a global network of web-connected telescopes, lets ...

NASA won't meet a congressionally ordered goal to find 90 percent of nearby and potentially dangerous asteroids larger than 460 feet (140 meters) in diameter, the agency’s Inspector General said ...

The idea is that HMI and AIA will link changes on the solar surface to the sun’s interior, NASA said. AIA filters cover 10 different wavelength bands, or colors, selected to reveal key aspects ...