While asteroids are more easily discovered with optical telescopes, radar images shine when it comes to details.

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

The JPL lab tracks any asteroids or ... according to NASA. The NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-APEX hovers over the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Apophis, using its thrusters to disturb the ...

Here's everything to know about the asteroid, how the public can track it going by and why NASA keeps a close eye on inbound space rocks. The asteroid, dubbed 2002 JX8, makes close approaches to ...

A massive, house-sized asteroid is streaking through space at a blistering 42,300 miles per hour, coming alarmingly close to Earth. Measuring between 49 to 111 feet in diameter, it is one of several ...

Here's everything to know about today's asteroid, how the public can track it going by and why NASA keeps a close eye on inbound space rocks. The asteroid, dubbed 2002 JX8, makes close approaches ...

The main belt asteroid 612356 2002 JX8 is estimated to have a diameter of 950 feet (290 meters) according to NASA, and will pose ... Studies responsible for tracking the long term potential ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small ... as the spacecraft turns its antenna away from Earth in order to track the asteroid. Levison expects to have most of the science data within ...

WASHINGTON — NASA has canceled plans to find a commercial partner to launch a robotic lunar rover and will instead pursue “alternative approaches” to fly the mission. In a May 7 statement ...

NASA's SPHEREx orbital observatory has begun imaging hundreds of millions of galaxies in 3D, tracking their changing locations and luminance on a scale never done before. For the next two years ...