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February 27, 2024
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 27, 2024 - On Feb. 2, a large asteroid safely drifted past Earth at a distance of about 1.8 million miles (2.9 million kilometers, or 7 0.5 times the distance between Earth and the Moon). There was no risk of
October 11, 2023
NASA is hosting a livestream today from Texas to show images and data of the samples collected from asteroid Bennu, which the agency fears could impact Earth in 2182.
September 20, 2023
NASA says Bennu is one of the two most hazardous known asteroids - but also a learning opportunity. Its OSIRIS-REx returns with Bennu samples Sunday
February 18, 2023
NASA's recent observations of asteroid 2011 AG5 have provided valuable insights into the object's size, rotation, surface features, orbit around the sun, and bizarre shape. Read more.
February 16, 2023
2023 CX1 is the seventh such object that scientists have correctly predicted will strike Earth.
October 17, 2022
The spacecraft at the center of NASAs first asteroid sample return mission has altered its trajectory in preparation for its return to Earth next year.
October 10, 2022
The discovery is an example of progress in global efforts to characterize potentially hazardous asteroids and shows planetary defense programs at work.
October 2, 2022
On 26 September, Nasaโs Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully slammed into an asteroid in the name of planetary defence. Hereโs why Nasa is hurling spacecraft at space rocks.
September 26, 2022
Astronomers will use telescopes on Maunakea and Haleakalฤ to collect data and determine how asteroid Dimorphos was impacted.
June 22, 2022
A massive comet will make its closest approach to Earth this year. (Photo : NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt (UCLA))This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a fuzzy cloud of dust, called a coma, surrounding the comet C/2017 K2 PANSTARRS (K2), the farthest active comet ever observed entering the solar system.