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

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

The Perseverance rover has been exploring the Jezero Crater for years, and it's finally found a potential meteorite, now ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower is active from Dec. 26 to Jan. 16, 2026, and will peak Jan. 3-4, 2026, though viewing will be ...

The University of Arizona's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft only made it home once in 2025, but at least it got some nice snapshots ...

GATEWAY, Ark. — Did you catch a flash of light across the northern Arkansas sky Saturday night? If so, you weren’t imagining things. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reported ...

NASA captured multiple meteor showers happening at once in August 2015 from a station in Huntsville, Ala. Two of them are the Southern Delta Aquariid and the Alpha Capricornid. (NASA) Two meteor ...

Dr. Peter Jenniskens taking a closer look at the image from the AVS Cineflex HiDEF camera mounted on the nose of the Eureka Airship. Mike Coop, can be seen in the background checking the map, further ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...