An unusual looking 33-foot-long object discovered orbiting Earth last year may have come from a surprising place.

NASA will brief media at 11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 29, to provide an update on science results from NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

Elon Musk shot a rocket to the moon, and he attached one of his cars to it. It's been floating around space ever since, and ...

One Alabama woman was rudely awoken from a nap in 1954 when a meteorite came through her roof and hit her, leaving a big bruise.

A private U.S. spacecraft has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. Still circling Earth, Firefly ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins another known lunar asteroid ...

Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

Surpassing expectations, NASA's OSIRIS-APEX endured a near-Sun passage, outperforming its heat tolerances and remaining ...

Earlier this month, the Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid close to Earth. Turns out, it was ...