2029 Apophis asteroid flyby will be a close encounter with Earth Earth’s gravity may dramatically alter the surface of ...

An asteroid burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere just hours after it was detected last month, the European Space Agency ...

"ATLAS survey obtained images that included detections of a small ... incoming asteroids should the need ever arise. In 2022, ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

During its recent exploration of the crater rim, Perseverance diverted to explore a strange, scattered field of bright white ...

An asteroid hit Earth hours after it was detected, evading NASA's early warning system, in the third close call of its kind ...

Three NASA astronauts whose prolonged space mission ended with a trip to the hospital last month won't say which one of them got sick. They held a news conference on Friday, their first since ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission captured imagery of Earth and the moon shrinking as the spacecraft was en route to the asteroid Dimorphos.