Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
Eye in the sky: California spending $100M to track methane emissions with satellites
California will soon start using satellite technology to track down methane and other greenhouse gas emissions that may ...
NASA’s Heat-Seeking Space Telescope Is Almost Ready to Spot Killer Asteroids
NASA’s NEO Surveyor, a spacecraft specifically designed to detect asteroids that could threaten Earth, is on track for a 2027 ...
Asteroid big enough to wipe out cities could still strike Moon creating major lunar impact
The asteroid is no longer considered a significant threat to Earth - but new calculations suggest a notable chance of a lunar impact.
The secret of life on Mars revealed: pay attention to what the Curiosity rover captured after breaking a rock on the red planet
The efforts made by humans to learn as much as possible about Mars are numerous, and NASA has an indispensable ally on the ...
Going where no spacecraft has gone before: NASA shuts down cosmic ray instrument on Voyager 2
The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive ...
NASA’s SWOT Satellite Just Revealed Thousands of Hidden Mountains Beneath the Ocean
We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...
NEO surveyor instrument enclosure tested inside historic chamber for Apollo spacecraft testing
The instrument enclosure of NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor was prepared for critical environmental tests inside the ...
How NASA's Perseverance is helping prepare astronauts for Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to help scientists ...
NASA scientists are clocking wildflower blooms to understand our ever-changing planet
NASA research is revealing there's more to flowers than meets the human eye. A recent analysis of wildflowers in California ...