These series of radar images of asteroid 1999 RQ36 were obtained by NASA’s Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif.…
This composite image of asteroid 2007 PA8 was obtained using data taken by NASA’s 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna…
A collage shows nine radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2007 PA8 that were obtained between Oct. 31 and Nov. 13,…
This movie of radar data images of asteroid Toutatis were generated with data collected using NASA’s 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space…
This sequence of radar images of asteroid 2013 ET was about 693,000 miles (1.1 million kilometers) from Earth.
This radar imagery of asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon was generated from data collected by NASA’s 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep…
This collage of radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2005 WK4 was collected by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep…
This graphic shows the orbits of all the known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs), numbering over 1,400 as of early 2013.
This image, taken on Dec. 31, 2013 by the AIA instrument on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory at 171 Angstrom, shows…
On December 30, 1924, astronomer Edwin P. Hubble (1889-1953) announced his discovery of the spiral nebula Andromeda, proving for the…