A spacecraft shot stunning photographs of Earth from nearly one million miles away on its route to a pulverized asteroid. The ...

The sight of a fireball streaking across the sky brings wonder and excitement to children and adults alike. It's a reminder ...

The Smithsonian partners with NASA to present the Earth Information Center, a larger-than-life display that visualizes ...

The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific ...

New evidence has emerged suggesting that the building blocks of life were delivered to the primordial Earth from space by ...

There’s been a lot of interest around developing technologies for mining rare-earth metals from asteroids as they pass on by.

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today, often causing scant damage but ...

Satellite history is littered with "firsts." Many early space launches constituted key moments in the Cold War space race and ...

The research has been led by a scientist called Joshua Pearce. It says that the organic compounds inside of asteroids - which ...

The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface.

Researchers have proposed using organic matter from asteroids to produce food for astronauts on long-duration space missions.

The meteor’s impact triggered a cascade of effects. It kicked up so much dust that the sky darkened. As the sun dimmed, ...