KF is set fly very close to the Earth this Wednesday, according to NASA. Its size is comparable to 12 and a half fully grown ...

MH4, a large space rock about three football fields in length, will make a close approach to Earth around May 24, 2025. While ...

By late February, experts at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory had analyzed new data submitted by astronomers worldwide. The ...

The NEO Surveyor mission is the first space telescope that'll be dedicated to locating asteroids that could threaten Earth, ...

A House hearing about how NASA is dealing with the threat posed by asteroid impacts turned into a discussion about impacts of ...

Scientists have uncovered fascinating new details about the internal structures of both the moon and the asteroid Vesta using ...

NASA’s latest gravitational data model of the Moon generated a litany of discoveries from ancient volcanoes to navigational ...

Analyzing gravity data collected by spacecraft orbiting other worlds reveals groundbreaking insights about planetary ...

While asteroids are more easily discovered with optical telescopes, radar images shine when it comes to details.

Vesta’s classification has vexed astronomers for decades, but a recent study is forcing planetary scientists to reevaluate ...

The JPL lab tracks any asteroids or comets with orbits ... according to NASA. The NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-APEX hovers over the ...