NEOWISE is depicted in an artist’s concept in front of an image of the infrared sky that the mission captured. The string of red dots moving across the sky near the center of the image is Holda, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WISE, NEOWISE's predecessor mission, imaged the entire sky in the mid-infrared range. NASA/JPL/Caltech/UCLA The NASA project ...

A prolific NASA asteroid-hunting mission has come to an end. Engineers sent a final command to the agency's NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) spacecraft on Thursday (Aug.

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...