Japan plans to join a European Space Agency mission to observe an asteroid set for a close flyby of Earth in 2029, a source familiar ...

An airplane-sized asteroid is heading towards Earth on 21 August. Scientists worldwide are now keeping a close watch. How close will asteroid 2025 OB3 come? NASA confirmed the asteroid’s upcoming ...

Astronomy often focuses on objects that are vast distances from Earth – stars that are light-years away, galaxies that are ...

The spacecraft was 290 million kilometers (180 million miles) from our planet when the image was snapped. The Earth and Moon ...

More than 50 years after the last manned moon mission, the Apollo program is still making groundbreaking discoveries.

Now that its ancient journey is over, the rock begins a new chapter on Earth. Officially named the McDonough Meteorite, it is ...

The task helps them survey the vast landscapes of the universe — from the Earth to the moon — in a space known as the Heat ...

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the ...

An interstellar comet spotted by NASA is headed for our solar system, showing up near Earth later this year, but it's another ...

Chadderton-born Professor Brian Cox has spoken out about claims that an interstellar object could be an alien spacecraft ...

However, the only person confirmed to be hit by a meteor strike is Ann Hodges, who was hit on her upper hip after a ...

"It has been included in the potentially hazardous list," the laboratory of solar astronomy of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences said ...