NASA cleared its moon rocket on Thursday for an April launch with four astronauts after completing the latest round of repairs. Relat ...

A television at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, captures the final images from the Double Asteroid ...

More than half of the near-Earth objects large enough to destroy a city have never been spotted by any telescope on or off the planet. NASA estimates the total population of these objects at roughly ...

A newly discovered asteroid, 2026 EG1, is set to make an exceptionally close pass by Earth on the night of March 12, 2026. Discovered only days ago, this asteroid will come within 197,466 miles of ...

Asteroid 2026 EG1 will pass within 1 lunar distance of Earth. | Credit: NASA JPL, NASA/STScI/J. DePasquale/A. Pagan A newly discovered bus-sized asteroid is set to buzz Earth late on March 12, passing ...

According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

An old NASA science satellite plunged uncontrolled from orbit and reentered over the Pacific on Wednesday. Related Articles. King pen ...

An asteroid can shift its orbit with even the smallest push. That became clear when a spacecraft slammed into a small asteroid moon in September 2022 and nudged more than just a local orbit. It also ...

Most people think of asteroids as lonely rocks moving through space. Many are not. About 15 percent of the asteroids near Earth have tiny moons, and that means a lot of them travel as binary systems.

New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to safely miss the lunar surface by about 13,000 miles, according to recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Asteroids would’ve supplied the raw materials, heat, and geologic plumbing to circulate prebiotic matter while also creating ...