A 130-foot asteroid, comparable to a large aircraft hangar, is hurtling towards Earth today at a speed of 16,048 miles per hour.

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

NASA is closely monitoring asteroid 2005 VO5, a giant, stadium-sized object set to whizz past Earth at high speed on July 11.

When NASA steered its Dart probe into an asteroid, it was supposed to determine how much it could be deflected. The ...

Here are 8 incredibly beautiful and mesmerizing deep space images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, showcasing the ...

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NASA has released the first-ever high-resolution image of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, highlighting its unique peanut shape.

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

Measuring approximately 120 feet in width, the asteroid will fly by at a velocity of 31,204 km/h, maintaining a safe distance ...

Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star system. The European Space ...

Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly knows a few things about objects in outer space, including those that make their way to Earth.