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

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 ...

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.

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

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's Europa Clipper embarks on a 1.8 billion-mile journey to study Jupiter’s moon Europa for potential habitability.

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

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

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

As a NASA science flight was flying over the Greenland ice sheet this spring, a surprise popped up on a specialty radar: a ...