At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ...

NASA’s search for near-Earth oddities has never been about a single dramatic moment, but about a slow, methodical expansion of what counts as “normal” in our cosmic neighborhood. Rather than a fresh ...

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 ...