The 50-metre-long rock went barely noticed as it passed earth at a distance of some 2,085,321 miles....

Mercury will be seen high in the sky after sunset beginning Wednesday....

The 'Supermoon' will be closest to the Earth in 18 years and will be around 10 to 30 per cent bright...

Commercial space imagery provider DigitalGlobe has selected Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Servic...

According to scientists, the astronomical event -- "extreme supermoon" -- may trigger earthquakes, v...

ESA’s GOCE satellite has achieved its ambitious goal of mapping Earth's gravity in two short years....

The launch of the satellite -- which was to measure aerosols in the Earth's atmosphere to help clari...

Orbiting at an altitude of 700 km, the spacecraft will observe phenomena like the 'elves', 'sprites'...

Earth is worth 3,000 trillion pounds, according to an astrophysicist who claims to have created a fo...