A school-bus-sized asteroid will pass by Earth this Wednesday, November 13, 2024, coming closer than the moon.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) reduces workforce by 5% due to budget constraints, affecting major projects and U.S.

It was confirmed that “planet killer” asteroids Ryugu and Bennu, which were recently sampled by Japan’s JAXA’s Hayabusa2 and ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

When it comes to space exploration, “I would think that this next [Trump] Administration is going to be a continuation of the ...

NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, along with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, were ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is reducing its workforce by 5 percent, or 325 employees, amid budget cuts and issues with ...

The new members bring expanded expertise in ethics, space communication, animal intelligence, extraterrestrial materials and ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission is on its way toward Mars, where it will get a gravity assist before going on to its asteroid target.