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 ...

New study with strong University of Arizona ties finds carbon dioxide has played a dominant role in controlling Earth’s temperature for nearly the last half-billion years.

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) ...

Researchers found evidence from astroid craters that Earth may have had a ring, like Saturn, formed 466 million years ago.

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 ...

Comet C/2023 A3 Tschinshan-ATLAS will be at its closest point to Earth, 44 million miles, on Saturday, and should be visible to the naked eye in the western sky just after sunset. The comet will be ...

Research on the Nadir crater shows that the asteroid which ended the dinosaur period 66 million years ago was not alone.

SpaceX's Starship IFT-5 mission will attempt a controlled re-entry and landing in the Indian Ocean. The excitement builds as ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has taught us a lot about the nature of asteroids and the history of our planet, and it's not done ...