NASA is testing a new lighter and more mobile 'pumpkin suit' for its first ever mission to lasso an ...

China's first flyby of an asteroid shows that a gigantic space rock which once triggered a doomsday ...

Mars, not Earth, plays a role in "refreshing" some near-Earth asteroids, causing the space rocks to ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen an asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust radiating fro...

Scientists have found that Earth acquired most of its water from asteroid impacts nearly 4.6 billion...

The powerful Gaia space telescope designed to create a 3D map of stars in the Milky Way will also de...

A newly discovered 1,300-foot-wide asteroid that buzzed past Earth last month will likely return in ...

The third largest near-Earth object - believed for 30 years to be an asteroid - is actually a comet,...

The space agency has released new photos and video animations depicting the agency's planned mission...