On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

Jan. 31 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency is monitoring an asteroid with a slim chance to strike Earth in 2032. Asteroid ...

Scientists from South Korea have conducted simulations of a potential impact of asteroid Bennu on Earth in the year 2182. As ...

Scientists from South Korea have conducted simulations of a potential impact of the asteroid Bennu on Earth in the year 2182.

as well as for interplanetary or cis-lunar operations near the moon. NASA's now retired Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe was misidentified as an asteroid several times during its lifetime ...

Auroras have long mystified humanity. Now that we know what they are and why they happen, we can better predict how best to ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

Pristine samples from asteroid Bennu contain “basic building ... The researchers believe similar salty brines may exist on other extra terrestrial bodies, including the dwarf planet Ceres and Saturn’s ...

NASA has plans to launch the first deep space station for humans to live long-term. Is it a necessary step to Mars?

A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an intriguing origin on our Moon. Its characteristics led scientists to ask: is it a chip off the old lunar block, ...

When Clay Chilcutt transferred to the University of Georgia, he encountered some seemingly bad luck. The astronomy class that ...