NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission, which was one of 19 designated to be canceled by the Trump administration, has been saved from ...

An animation of an asteroid's close approach to Earth has garnered considerable interest in recent times, largely due to its ...

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

The asteroid is projected to come within 865,000 miles of Earth—nearly five times closer than the orbit of the moon.

A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance ...

The Orionid meteor shower peaks this year with the arrival of a new moon, offering a rare chance to see shooting stars ...

October is full of astronomical events, with a supermoon and dim meteor recently brightening the skies over Los Angeles. Next ...

NASA’s asteroid impact changed Dimorphos’s orbit, but another strange shift followed. Scientists are still searching for ...

GATEWAY, Ark. — Did you catch a flash of light across the northern Arkansas sky Saturday night? If so, you weren’t imagining things. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reported ...

The Draconid meteor shower starts on Monday, Oct. 6. Here's what you need to know about when it starts, peaks and ends.

An enormous asteroid is approaching Earth at 24,136 miles per hour—and will be at its closest to us in two days' time. The ...