The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...

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NASA is fueling an exciting future for citizen science by funding 25 new projects across diverse fields, from astrophysics to ...

The eruption released energy six times greater than all Earth's power plants combined, exceeding 80,000 trillion watts.

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — An ambitious, multinational research project funded by NASA and co-led by the University at Buffalo has ...

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet ...

Will the 2025 launch total set another new record? Stay tuned. Crews at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and neighboring Cape ...