The stadium-sized asteroid 2020 XR is due to make its closest approach to Earth on record early on Dec. 4, and the encounter ...

Another gigantic asteroid will come within Earth's neighborhood on Wednesday, and Earthlings can watch it live online, knowing it's at a safe distance.

The asteroids, named 447755 (2007 JX2) and (2020 XR), are each estimated to be roughly between 900 feet and 2,100 feet across ...

Maruthi Akella, a professor at the University of Texas, has been honored with the naming of an asteroid located more than a ...

Camp Century was built in 1959 and advertised as a U.S. research site—but it also hosted a clandestine missile facility ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock.

Through advanced autonomy testbed programs, NASA is setting the groundwork for one of its top priorities—the search for signs ...

Every year, over 3,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are found by NASA's survey telescopes. With the use of more powerful and ...

NASA/JPL/Handout via REUTERS By Will DunhamReuters Study indicates Venus has never had habitable conditions WASHINGTON, Dec 2 ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested the feasibility of a mission concept called SWIM, short for Sensing With Independent ...

One of Uranus's moons likely has an ocean while the composition of the planet itself is more bizarre than we knew ...

The CIRES-led study used ground-penetrating radar to estimate the amount of waste under the ice. The team found that the ...