NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

NASA's Curiosity rover made a compelling find on Mars ' irradiated surface.

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

Until now, only about a quarter of the seafloor has been mapped using ships with special sonar equipment. The rest has ...

Keegan Barber/NASA, via Getty Images They set off ... time and then traveled back to Earth, slowing from more than 17,000 miles an hour before deploying four large parachutes that gently plopped ...

NASA has issued a warning about ... wide- which makes it twice as large as the Taj Mahal. It belongs to the Apollo group of near-Earth objects (NEOs), a category of asteroids that cross Earth ...

By mission completion, this atlas will cover around one-third of the entire night sky over Earth. The location of ... zoomed ...

Alfred and Seru are east of northern Australia. According to a NASA Earth Observatory release, the image was taken a day after a sixth storm weakened too much to be identifiable in this shot.

A spacecraft has successfully closed in on a massive chunk of metal zipping around Earth, capturing images of it—a big leap ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

Credit: NASA Webb’s latest discovery has opened a thrilling new chapter in exoplanet research by capturing the first-ever ...