“As the next generation of telescopes enters operation, we expect the number of known NEAs to continue to grow at an even ...

To close this gap, NASA is building the Near-Earth Object Surveyor, a space telescope designed to detect asteroids using infrared rather than visible light. Its infrared sensors will detect both ...

These meteors and asteroids hit Earth. In 2016, a huge fireball lit up the Florida night sky and shocked everyone who saw it. In 2015, a driver in Thailand captured an impressive meteor on a dashboard ...

Ukrainian scientists have discovered a massive asteroid; NASA responds. This diagram shows the orbit of asteroid 2013 TV135 (in blue), which has just a one-in-63,000 chance of impacting Earth. Its ...

Researchers discovered a new field of ancient tektites in South Australia, revealing a long-forgotten asteroid impact. These 11-million-year-old glass fragments differ chemically and geographically ...