According to the latest Nasa alert Earth will be approached by a bus-sized interstellar visitor today (October 13) with two others in tow. The three bodies will make a pass near the plant before ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is actively monitoring three asteroids making close approaches to Earth on 13 October ...

A new opportunity for the future of space exploration and industry has emerged: asteroid mining. While astronomers recently ...

Humans began farming thousands of years ago, but a new study co-authored by two LSU professors says ants had us beat by ...

The pacer Congressional (Always B Miki) and the trotter Asteroid (Creatine) proved the best in their respective ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

Asteroid 2023 JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters) ...

Kopernik Observatory Executive Director Drew Deskur discusses how to view rare comet that will be visible in the Southern ...

The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.

NASA LANL NEWS RELEASEIn 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth ...

NASA is developing plans to defend Earth against potential "planet killer" asteroids by considering launching a large fleet of spacecraft or even using a nuclear device to deflect ...