Sky watchers may have reason to look up this week. NASA has confirmed that two asteroids will fly past Earth on August 3. The ...

Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

KTLA speaks with Davide Farnocchia, navigation engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who works in the agency’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. He shares how scientists tracked the ...

There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...

Three dozen scientists from all over the world have been in Galesburg this summer tracking near-earth asteroids and charting ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has cowritten a research paper speculating whether the comet 3I/ATLAS is in fact "hostile" ...

On July 30, 2025,asteroid 2025 OL1—measuring roughly the size of a small aircraft—will pass Earth at a distance of 1.29 ...

"Up to 10% of the lunar ejecta could reach Earth within days," said Paul Wiegert, a planetary scientist and lead author of ...

John Sandusky, a scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, stands in the field of heliostats at the National Solar Thermal ...

A new study by astronomers at the University of Western Ontario suggests and asteroid strike in 2032 could create hundreds of ...

The latest data on asteroid 2024 YR4 has scientists confident that Earth is no longer in the bullseye. However the enormous ...