NASA issued an alert on the asteroid 2019 VU5, a near-Earth object, which is going to pass dangerously close to Earth today.

Astronauts on the Apollo missions of the 1960s and '70s collected rocks ... Trump didn't scrap SLS, but he did change Obama's ...

Soil-like pebbles in moon samples brought home by Apollo 16 astronauts have revealed new details about lunar history.

Asteroid 2019 VU5, about the size of a half football field, will pass close to Earth today. While no collision is expected, its proximity raises questions about potential threats from space.

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman said frequent space travel is "around the corner." How humans will survive off-world is ...

Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to ...

When it comes to space exploration, “I would think that this next [Trump] Administration is going to be a continuation of the ...

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...

A fresh analysis of lunar dust collected by Apollo 16 astronauts in 1972 offers a clearer picture of the effects of asteroid strikes on the moon, allowing scientists to reconstruct billions of ...