NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks ...

According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...

All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it’s the only one we have, NASA Administrator Bill ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our understanding of how planets take shape — not only in our solar system, but ...

Meteors can light up the sky in the form of shooting stars, but they often burn up in the atmosphere. Some are able to make ...

An asteroid named 2025 ME92 is set to fly past Earth on July 31. It will maintain a safe distance of 3.19 million kilometers. NASA and ISRO are monito ...

NASA found one of the biggest gold reservoir in the universe - and it's traveling across the cosmos. The space agency is ...

NASA has identified a 210-foot, airplane-sized asteroid approaching Earth today, although scientists assure it will not ...

Scientists have recently identified one of the most threatening asteroids ever discovered,99942 Apophis. Measuring about 370 meters in diameter, Apophis first captured global attention after its ...

Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.

Felix Baumgartner, famous for leaping from a balloon in outer space back to earth, has died in a paragliding crash in Italy.

China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.