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 ...

(CNN) -- A NASA spacecraft shifted into higher orbit around the asteroid Eros this week, after spending five months moving steadily closer to the space rock. The NEAR-Shoemaker had circled the ...

These are asteroids whose orbit brings them within 195 ... grouped together mostly by gravity." Getty Images Eros became the first near-Earth asteroid to be discovered when a German astronomer ...

In 1896 he discovered an asteroid which he named Berolina in ... as its orbit lay almost entirely inside the orbit of Mars. Eros approaches the earth more closely than any other body except ...

At the moment, one of the network’s giant dish antennas is relaying signals from a boxy little spacecraft called NEAR Shoemaker in orbit around a potato-shaped asteroid known as Eros.

NASA has defined asteroids as small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets, but they are much smaller in size. Most of them are found in the main asteroid belt, a region between the orbits of ...