Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.

NASA’s search for life beyond Earth is no longer a distant dream but a coordinated campaign that now stretches from Martian ...

Could an asteroid really strike our planet? In what seems to be the backstory of a doomsday science fiction flick, NASA is tracking an asteroid that has a non-zero chance of striking Earth. Here's ...

NASA is also tracking a building-sized asteroid named “2025 YC3”, with a diameter of around 260 feet, and another bus-sized one known as “2025 XT7,” some 42 feet across. Both are expected to come with ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA and India paired up to launch an Earth-mapping satellite on Wednesday capable of tracking even the slightest shifts in land and ice. The $1.3 billion mission will help ...

NASA has big (and extremely complicated) plans to return Americans to the Moon in the next few years — and it would like your help. As part of a wider push to offload costs and capabilities to the ...

Two of NASA's historic data-collecting missions — used by scientists and earthbound agriculturalists to track carbon dioxide and crop health — may be permanently grounded as the Trump administration ...

As early as next spring, NASA hopes to send astronauts back to the moon - to orbit the moon, at least - the next step in a long plan to return to lunar landings and eventually to set foot on Mars.

NASA is monitoring a car-sized asteroid that's expected to zip past Earth tomorrow morning at around 28,655 miles per hour. The space rock known as "2025 FM18," estimated to be about 15 feet across, ...

NASA notes that an impact from Asteroid 2024 YR4 could be damaging, and that it poses threats to domestic and international security. "It is large enough to cause localized damage in the unlikely ...