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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

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 ...

On January 6, 1968, NASA launched the seventh and final Surveyor spacecraft on a mission to explore the moon. Like its six predecessors, Surveyor 7 was a robotic spacecraft sent to demonstrate the ...

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 ...