NEOWISE, NASA’s retired infrared telescope, has tracked numerous near-Earth objects and discovered a rare comet since 2013.
Impacts from large near-Earth objects are generally rare over a typical human lifetime. But they’re more frequent on a geological timescale of millions to billions of years. The best example may be a ...
NASA is continuously improving its tools and missions in the quest to follow and investigate asteroids. The DART mission ...
The asteroid, approximately 70 cm in diameter, was similar in size to previous asteroid entries like 2022 WJ, 2023 CX1, and ...
Comets masquerading as asteroids are being found in increasing numbers, with 14 now known in the asteroid belt.
Fast radio bursts, hugely powerful discharges of energy emanating from the furthest reaches of outer space, have confounded ...
The project, which gave astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects, ended its mission and re-entered the atmosphere ...
Humankind accomplished new feats in space this year, including scooping up some of the moon’s farside and launching a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa.
Although it completed its mission in July, NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) still has ...
As the largest planet in our Solar System, Jupiter's grandeur is visible to the naked eye and through simple telescopes, ...
Water. All life on Earth requires it in some way or another, and it's hard to miss that roughly 70% of our planet's surface ...