The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

On July 20, 1969, the world watched on as the US made space history with its ambitious Apollo 11 mission. Neil Armstrong and ...

JX8 to pass Earth safely on May 9, visible through live str Live stream begins 4:30 p.m. EDT via The Virtual Telescope Project site Asteroid 2002 JX8 is 950 feet wide and poses no danger to Earth at a ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within days.

EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary. Credit: Space.com | footage: Krisztián Sárneczky / orbit animation: NASA/ ...

From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets ...

The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

The Hayabusa2 mission captured the asteroid with eerie clarity against a pitch-black backdrop. The unsettling darkness of ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is preparing for a leadership change as Laurie Leshin, its director since 2022, will ...

A recent paper published in Nature and Nature Astronomy finding life's building blocks on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

The spacecraft's NavCam 1 - one of three cameras that comprised its 'Touch-and-Go' camera system - snapped the photo 804,000 ...