The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...

Two mission concepts are seeking funding to fly by and even collide with an asteroid that is making a very close flyby of ...

Across the globe, technology that is designed to generate solar energy could potentially be employed for yet another ...

A large asteroid, 1997 QK1, will safely pass Earth on August 20, 2025. NASA and ISRO will monitor this event. The asteroid is ...

NASA's Dr David Grinspoon claims there could be life on the dwarf planet Ceres as astrobiologists are constantly 'surprised' ...

The photographs were taken during scheduled checkouts of the spacecraft’s science instruments, crucial for calibrating its ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 1997 QK1, a massive rock roughly 990 feet wide, will make its closest approach to Earth on ...

Scientists have calculated the odds of a catastrophic asteroid impact compared to other causes of death—to surprising results ...

A NASA scientist has suggested there could be life in the seas of a planet in our Solar System - and it's not out of the ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, an asteroid caught by Earth's gravity might have fragmented, creating a temporary ring ...

The 55-feet-wide space rock is hurtling through space at a zippy 17,717 miles per hour, according to the space agency.