An airplane-sized asteroid is heading towards Earth on 21 August. Scientists worldwide are now keeping a close watch. How close will asteroid 2025 OB3 come? NASA confirmed the asteroid’s upcoming ...

Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Astronomy often focuses on objects that are vast distances from Earth – stars that are light-years away, galaxies that are ...

The spacecraft was 290 million kilometers (180 million miles) from our planet when the image was snapped. The Earth and Moon ...

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

Now that its ancient journey is over, the rock begins a new chapter on Earth. Officially named the McDonough Meteorite, it is ...

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

The task helps them survey the vast landscapes of the universe — from the Earth to the moon — in a space known as the Heat ...

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

An interstellar comet spotted by NASA is headed for our solar system, showing up near Earth later this year, but it's another ...

Chadderton-born Professor Brian Cox has spoken out about claims that an interstellar object could be an alien spacecraft ...