The agency announced on Friday (Feb. 21) that it has selected Elon Musk's company to launch its NEO Surveyor spacecraft, which will hunt for asteroids and comets that could pose a threat to Earth.

NASA announced Feb. 21 it awarded a task order through the NASA Launch Services II contract for the launch of the Near Earth Orbit (NEO) Surveyor spacecraft on a Falcon 9. That task order is ...

The mirrors for NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other spacecraft components is accelerating. NASA's new asteroid-hunting spacecraft ...

has become an important topic with projects like the upcoming NEO Surveyor spacecraft designed specifically to spot near-Earth objects (NEOs), and tests like NASA’s DART mission where a ...

While parts of the Earth saw a total lunar eclipse, the Blue Ghost lunar lander captured stunning imagery of a solar eclipse on Friday. See the rare view here.

The twin to the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft, Phoenix was supposed to travel to Mars in 2001 as the Mars Surveyor spacecraft. They were originally part of the "better, faster, cheaper" program ...

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

EVEN THOUGH THEY’RE NEAR EARTH, THEY’RE HARD TO SEE. THE NEO SURVEYOR WILL CONTINUOUSLY SCAN INTO SPACE USING SENSITIVE INFRARED DETECTORS LOOKING FOR THESE ASTEROIDS AND TRACKING THEIR MOVEMENTS.

On a rainy March 5, friends and family paid tribute to a WWII Veteran at Bakersfield Memorial Cemetery in Arvin, California. Charles Wilson served in the Army Air Corp., and had a fantastic education ...

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 ...