A potentially hazardous asteroid roughly the size of an aircraft carrier is due to pass within 2.8 million miles (3.5 million ...

Earth harbors incredible secrets, from remnants of a planet that formed the Moon residing deep within, to ancient auroras ...

An asteroid the size of a 10-story building could collide with the Moon in 2032 – and NASA just upped its impact odds again ...

In a stunning reminder of our place in the vastness of space, a remarkable image taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows ...

NASA shows how asteroids shaped Earth’s past. They still hold the power to reset life as we know it, but scientists are ready ...

The presidential budget suggests trashing science missions in favor of colonizing Mars. A new study argues that research must ...

For 67 years, the observatory on Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano has been taking these measurements daily  — tracking the ...

The idea of Earth's destruction has been a source of apprehension and distress for humans. In the news, we often hear about ...

A massive asteroid, expected to be larger than San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, will pass close to Earth on June 5.

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

Living in today's age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to ...