Some of the most important asteroid searches are done at exactly the time of night when satellite trails are hardest to avoid ...

NASA estimates that roughly 25,000 near-Earth asteroids measuring at least 140 meters across orbit in our planetary neighborhood, but surveys have so far cataloged only about 40% of them. That gap ...

Humanity needs to step up its asteroid-hunting game. To date, astronomers have spotted more than 8,000 near-Earth asteroids that are at least 460 feet (140 meters) wide — big enough to wipe out an ...

NASA’s Vigilance on Near-Earth Objects On March 16, 2026, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is set to monitor three significant asteroids that will make close passes to Earth. While the term ...

JWST imaged 2024 YR4 in late March, making it the smallest object the telescope had imaged to date. The data its instruments collected indicate that based on the amount of heat it gives off, 2024 YR4 ...

NASA says an impact from its DART spacecraft changed the orbit of an asteroid for the first time ever, offering hope for planetary defense.