Hera and its two cubesats arrived at their launch site in Florida in early September following a transatlantic flight from Germany, with a stop in Ireland. The mission's launch window opens on Oct. 7 ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

Asteroids from the Earth pass by all the time but we are expecting a friendly visitor staying around for the next couple ...

Asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as "mini ...

Peanuts! Get your peanuts here! The solar system has been passing out peanuts lately in the form of two different oddly ...

New research suggests that small asteroid collisions could potentially alter Apophis’s trajectory, raising concerns about future risks.

A 120-foot asteroid, similar in size to a small plane, is set to make a close flyby of Earth today. While it will pass within ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope captures one of the universe's most dramatic events: the colliding of two galaxies.

The mirrors for NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other ...

Earth may briefly have had a ring system similar to Saturn ’s over 450 million years ago during a period of unusually intense ...

Today, NASA has issued a notice regarding a significant celestial event. A 510-foot asteroid, approximately the size of a ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...