There was no danger of either asteroid hitting Earth, but such 'close' flybys don't happen every day, so the JPL team hustled ...

With lunar exploration ramping up, NASA has been tasked with defining a time zone for the moon. New calculations show that ...

Boeing's Starliner capsule is performing well enough on its first-ever astronaut mission that it will likely be able to stay ...

“So, it'll look ... kind of like a hydrogen bomb on Earth, where it's just lots and lots of really bright white light.” Koji Mukai, an astrophysics researcher at NASA, told VOA in an email, “It's not ...

Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have mapped scorching pavement in Phoenix where ...

Five asteroids will pass Earth in the days before International Asteroid Day on Sunday. But don’t worry — scientists say none ...

Two NASA astronauts have no set date to return to Earth and are stuck waiting aboard the ISS due to several mechanical issues ...

NASA astronaut Patrick G. Forrester retired June 29, after a career spanning 31 years of service and three spaceflights. He went on to become ...

NASA ran the world's most dramatic roleplay, simulating what would happen if a dangerous asteroid were spotted on a collision ...

This latest planetary defense exercise underscores how critical near-Earth object surveillance is (these are objects that ...

July 3 (UPI) --NASA on Wednesday named Andre Douglas as ... time an observation satellite intended to monitor damage on Earth ...

The smaller of the pair was spotted only this month and could be visible with binoculars as it passes by our planet within ...