NASA warns! Aeroplane-sized 140-foot asteroid 2026 CU1 zooms past Earth at 18,000 mph; here’s what you need to know

A 140-foot asteroid is set to sweep past Earth today, and it seems everyone is taking notice. Astronomers have been tracking the space rock, officiall.

NASA selects UC San Diego-led satellite mission to track Earth’s changing systems

NASA has selected UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to lead the Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) satellite mission, which will monitor land, vegetation, ice sheets and coastal regions to help scientists better understand climate change and natural disasters.

This massive 170-foot asteroid to cross Earth today at very high speed, NASA alerts

A 170-foot asteroid is set to race past Earth today at extraordinary speed, NASA says. Though no impact is expected, scientists are watching closely. What makes this flyby worth attention?
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NASA gives terrifying update on thousands of ‘city-killer’ asteroids that could hit Earth

NASA's head of planetary defence, Dr Kelly Fast, has issued an unsettling update on thousands of ‘city-killer’ asteroids that could hit Earth.
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NASA selects two Earth science missions for development

NASA has selected two Earth science missions for development, one focused on studying the atmosphere and the other on terrestrial ecosystems and ice.
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Asteroid samples NASA brought to Earth suggest life's building blocks may be widespread in the universe

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

Goddard wins two NASA Earth missions to help predict, reduce harm from environmental disasters

Two new satellite missions will help NASA scientists better understand Earth and improve the ability to foresee environmental events and mitigate disasters. And the agency says they’ll be led out of Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,

NASA astronaut captures Earth spinning at 60x speed with lightning storms, sunsets and moonlit oceans

A NASA astronaut has shared a breathtaking 60x speed time-lapse from orbit, capturing lightning storms, blazing sunsets and moonlit oceans in one sweeping view of Earth.

42 years of measuring the sun, the Earth and the energy in between

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a cosmic ray detector, was designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth orbit.
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NASA's Perseverance rover now has its own 'GPS' on Mars: 'We've given the rover a new ability'

NASA has given its Perseverance Mars rover a powerful new ability to determine its exact location on the Red Planet without waiting for instructions from Earth, effectively giving the six-wheeled explorer its own version of GPS.