Even the most ambitious part of NASA's current plans for human spaceflight involves visiting a celestial body we've already been to: the moon. Astronauts, space buffs and an unimpressed public hunger ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...

A majority of Black Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans agreed that Trump is a “dangerous dictator,” compared to 45% of ...

NASA is closely monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that is expected to zoom past the Earth today at a speed of around 19,193 miles per hour.

"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of ...

“The Day The Earth Blew Up” is a 2024 animated film directed by Pete Browngardt, which premiered at a film festival before ...

NASA has shared an important update on how it plans to defend Earth from potential asteroid collisions. A recent scare involving asteroid 2024 YR4 has reignited global concerns about space rocks ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and ...

A large asteroid is racing towards Earth; it won't hit ... Lives would be lost and cities would be destroyed. The 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor, however, was only 18 meters in diameter.

An asteroid that earlier sparked fear of hitting Earth may now be on a different path heading towards ... But the asteroid could still strike the Moon, which does not have an atmosphere to destroy up ...

Dubbed the 2024 YR4, it appeared to have the potential of being a city-destroying asteroid. NASA feared the giant space object could hit Earth when it passes in December 2032. While the chance of it ...