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

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

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

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

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 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 ...

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

A radar image taken by Nasa scientists while flying over Greenland has revealed an abandoned Cold War -era “city” under the ...

WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...

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