The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the atmosphere after ...

Since it began operations in December 2009, NASA’s NEOWISE mission has observed 158,000 asteroids and discovered more than 35,000. The NEOWISE mission hunts for near-Earth objects (NEOs) using the ...

This artist’s concept depicts the NEOWISE spacecraft in orbit around Earth. Launched in 2009 to survey the entire sky in infrared, the spacecraft took on a more specialized role in 2014 when it was ...

The mission served as a predecessor to NASA's next-generation infrared space telescope: Near-Earth Object Surveyor (NEO Surveyor) "The WISE and NEOWISE missions exceeded all expectations and returned ...

After 10 years and nearly 27 million images, NASA said goodbye to the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission last week when its transmitter was turned off. The ...

NASA has found fewer than a third of the near-Earth asteroids large enough to destroy a city, and the agency’s best tool for ...

The asteroid-hunting telescope is slowly descending toward Earth as solar activity ramps up. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...

Comet Neowise, over a silhouetted Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England, UK on the 12th July 2020. Discovered in March 2020 by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission, ...

NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft is about to return to Earth in a blaze of glory after 15 years of service. The NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) mission has been using a space ...

NASA’s NEOWISE archival data tracks a massive star in Andromeda fading quietly into a black hole, providing detailed observations of stellar collapse and gas expulsion from 2005 to 2023.