When a six-mile-wide asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it didn’t just wipe out the dinosaurs. New findings ...

A comet that was born in another solar system and could be billions of years old is hurdling through Earth’s solar system — a ...

Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it ...

I don’t think space or lunar tourism is going to be the big draw that transforms the moon into something unrecognizable.

KTLA speaks with Davide Farnocchia, navigation engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who works in the agency’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. He shares how scientists tracked the ...

There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...

Three dozen scientists from all over the world have been in Galesburg this summer tracking near-earth asteroids and charting ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has cowritten a research paper speculating whether the comet 3I/ATLAS is in fact "hostile" ...

"Up to 10% of the lunar ejecta could reach Earth within days," said Paul Wiegert, a planetary scientist and lead author of ...

John Sandusky, a scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, stands in the field of heliostats at the National Solar Thermal ...

A new study by astronomers at the University of Western Ontario suggests and asteroid strike in 2032 could create hundreds of ...