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

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

When a massive asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it triggered a chain of disasters—firestorms, tsunamis, and ...

Psyche’s twin cameras recorded long-exposure images of Earth and the Moon. From 180 million miles away, both appeared as faint dots.

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

People in Japan witnessed a rare sight on Tuesday night as the sky got lit up by a fireball.The astonishing sight was captured by live cameras installed at locations across parts of Kyushu ...

Headed for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche spacecraft successfully calibrated its cameras by looking homeward.

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the ...

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

NASA has confirmed asteroid 1997 QK1 will make its closest approach on 20 August. The rock measures about 990 feet wide and is travelling at 21,994 miles per hour.

NASA has a planetary defense project that identified possible threats in near our solar system that could cause another mass ...

The meteorite is roughly 4.56 billion years old, and experts believe it’s a chip off an asteroid from the belt between Mars ...