A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Scarlett Johansson revealed what she really thought about the "vagina joke" that husband Colin Jost made about her on Saturday Night Live last year.

XR flew about 1.37 million miles (2.2M km) away from Earth. The space rock is estimated to be about 300-700 km (248-434 miles ...

Confident that the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx captured a good-sized sample from the surface of an asteroid, the team working on the NASA project will start the process of stowing the material in a ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

NASA gave the all-clear Monday on an asteroid that previously had a chance of colliding with Earth in 2032. The asteroid was first discovered in late 2024 and reported when it surpassed the 1% ...

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) scientists have officially ruled out the possibility of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032, with the latest analysis reducing the risk to just 0.001 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has gotten media attention ... Congress directed NASA to track 90% of all near-Earth objects 140 meters or larger by 2020. Chodas says that they are at around 45% right now.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers ...

NASA scientists previously estimated that the odds of 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 could rise to 20 percent, but the agency never told the public. A statistical analysis ...

A so-called "city killer" asteroid scientists have been monitoring after discovering it had a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032 "no longer poses a significant threat," NASA said in its latest ...