NASA is tracking two bus-sized asteroids in the vicinity of the Earth that are whizzing through space at some 11,000 to 24,000 miles per hour. A space rock known as "2025 HP22," measuring ...

NASA’s Psyche mission, which aims to explore the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, has hit a snag on its journey. As reported in a ...

"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 ...

The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.

Even the most ambitious part of NASA's current plans for human spaceflight involves visiting a celestial body we've already been to: the moon. Astronauts, space buffs and an unimpressed public hunger ...

JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters), roughly the ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust, mantle ...

Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

New observations show the asteroid that won’t hit Earth resembles a spinning hockey puck NASA ... Swarms of Trojans precede and follow the solar system’s largest planet as it circles the sun. Lucy ...

An Apollo-class asteroid, 2011 VG9, is approaching Earth at a staggering speed, set to pass on April 16th. While not classified as 'potentially hazardous' due to its distance, its size and ...

Advert People on social media are understandably thankful that Earth doesn’t find itself in ... One Reddit user said: “Imagining how big that asteroid is is scary. Compared to Jupiter... you know, the ...

So, the OSIRIS‑REx mission ventured to the asteroid Bennu to retrieve an unaltered ... unless they’re about to hit the Earth, and astronomers get lucky. But there is another way scientists ...