A near-Earth asteroid is turning heads for a distinct shape that makes it awfully hard to take seriously — even though it’s “potentially hazardous.” As seen in a series of radar images, the rocky ...
Arecibo has provided the highest-resolution images to date of near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon. After several months of downtime since Hurricane Maria struck the island of Puerto Rico, the Arecibo ...
A sequence of radar images of asteroid 1998 QE 2 was obtained on the evening of May 29, 2013, by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70 meters) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, ...
Rocket Lab successfully launched a Japanese Earth-observing satellite into orbit early Friday, marking a significant step in ...
Rocket Lab launched an Earth-observing radar satellite for the Japanese company Synspective early Friday morning (May 22).
For decades, scientists have debated whether Mars once had a large ocean. Images from orbiters have shown valleys, channels and features that look like dried riverbeds. However, clear proof of an ...
A sequence of radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 -- obtained by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif. -- reveals that it is a binary asteroid. In ...