To save ourselves from a killer asteroid, first we have to find it. A spacecraft now under construction at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in may be our best hope. The Near-Earth Object Surveyor is a ...

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

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

Meteorites are primarily stony chondrites, but also include iron-rich achondrites and pallasites. Studying meteors provides ...

Wall St. Insights Rising geopolitical tensions in recent years have caused military spending and weapons exports to skyrocket ...

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

A 500-foot- wide space rock could inflict mass casualties across a state or a small country; those arrive every 20,000 years.

A scientists has warned that a destructive asteroid could be heading towards Earth and we don't have the technology to detect ...