The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...

Two mission concepts are seeking funding to fly by and even collide with an asteroid that is making a very close flyby of ...

Across the globe, technology that is designed to generate solar energy could potentially be employed for yet another ...

NASA's Dr David Grinspoon claims there could be life on the dwarf planet Ceres as astrobiologists are constantly 'surprised' ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 1997 QK1, a massive rock roughly 990 feet wide, will make its closest approach to Earth on ...

People in Japan witnessed a rare sight on Tuesday night as the sky got lit up by a fireball.The astonishing sight was captured by live cameras installed at locations across parts of Kyushu ...

The notion of asteroid mining has transitioned from a science fiction dream to a tangible future possibility, promising a transformative impact on the global economy. By tapping into the vast ...

A NASA scientist has suggested there could be life in the seas of a planet in our Solar System - and it's not out of the ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, an asteroid caught by Earth's gravity might have fragmented, creating a temporary ring ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The 55-feet-wide space rock is hurtling through space at a zippy 17,717 miles per hour, according to the space agency.