Witness the potential scale of destruction and long-term consequences of an asteroid impact on Earth. A boy and his father ...

Kosmos 482, a 1,000 lb. former Soviet space probe, is currently expected to renter the Earth's atmosphere between May 8 and ...

NASA is also tracking two other asteroids near Earth today, including a larger bus-sized one called "2025 HR1" that's ...

A newly released image of the sun captured by the world's largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in ...

NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...

"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 ...

Even the most ambitious part of NASA's current plans for human spaceflight involves visiting a celestial body we've already been to: the moon. Astronauts, space buffs and an unimpressed public hunger ...

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust, mantle ...

This asteroid is about the size of a large building, and it's hurtling along at tens of thousands of kilometres per hour. If ...

Coral reefs around the world are losing their color at an unprecedented scale as a result of rising sea temperatures, federal ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...