NASA is expanding its work with commercial space companies, including Blue Origin, as the agency advances efforts to find and track asteroids that could threaten Earth. Blue Origin’s current NASA work ...

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. ...

The agency said Friday the NEO Surveyor mission is intended to enhance its planetary defense capabilities. Under the task order, the Starbase, Texas-based firm is tasked with launching a 20-inch ...

Remember just last week when we were all excitedly reading about the record one in 32 chance that a giant asteroid was on a collision course with Earth? Well, it isn't anymore but that doesn't mean ...

Last week, NASA decommissioned a nearly 15-year-old spacecraft that discovered 400 near-Earth asteroids and comets, closing an important chapter in the agency’s planetary defense program. From its ...

NASA's near-Earth-object-hunting mission NEOWISE is nearing its conclusion. But its work will carry on with NASA's next-generation infrared mission: NEO Surveyor. After more than 14 successful years ...

NASA's NEOWISE space telescope, which has spent over a decade identifying potentially hazardous asteroids and comets as a key part of planetary defense, is expected to burn up in Earth's atmosphere by ...