A NASA planetary defense mission will ride to space atop a SpaceX rocket two and a half years from now. NEO Surveyor will lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Space Coast no earlier than ...

NASA announced on Friday that it has approved a new infrared space telescope called the Near-Earth Object Surveyor or NEO Surveyor. The telescope moves to the next step of mission deployment at the ...

Delta II rocket lifts off with NASA’s sky-mapping satellite aboard. Image Credit: Bill Hartenstein/United Launch Alliance Early Monday morning, NASA launched a spacecraft that will map the entire sky ...

There are more than 1.1 million known asteroids in the solar system. Most of them are in the asteroid belt, a loose collection of bits and bobs left over from the formation of the Sun and planets, but ...

KILLER ASTEROIDS ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH EARTH. NASA JUST ANNOUNCED A DEAL WITH SPACEX TO LAUNCH THE NEAR-EARTH OBJECT, OR NEO SURVEY OR MISSION. YEAH, WELL, THE ODDS ARE SMALL OF IT EVER HAPPENING ...

This means that the asteroid-detecting space telescope is now being built by the international aerospace union. The new NEO (Near-Earth Object) Surveyor would greatly help NASA when it comes to ...

NASA's first telescope specifically designed to find and track hazardous near-Earth asteroids and comets from space will soon become a reality. Called the Near-Earth Object Surveyor (NEO Surveyor), ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

Pasadena, Calif. – NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor has likely finished its operating career. The spacecraft has served the longest and been the most productive of any mission ever sent to the red planet. ...

A new telescope to advance planetary defense will hunt potentially disastrous near-Earth objects. The telescope, set to launch as early as 2028, will discover hazardous asteroids within a decade of ...

This series will explore historic space missions from the start of the Space Age to the present day, including both crewed and robotic missions. Here we will investigate the scientific rationale ...

Engineers are striving to restore full communications with NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor on the 10th anniversary of the spacecraft’s Nov. 7, 1996, launch. The orbiter is the oldest of five NASA ...