Vesta’s classification has vexed astronomers for decades, but a recent study is forcing planetary scientists to reevaluate its internal structure.

Water is essential in order for life to exist, but scientists are still unsure about how it originated on Earth. […] ...

A Russian spacecraft is about to slam into Earth – and it could pose even more danger than it appears, experts have warned.

Speculation is growing over whether NASA and other space agencies are withholding information about potentially ...

Musk described Mars as a form of “life insurance” — a way to preserve humanity and other life forms beyond Earth’s eventual ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) says that asteroid (612356) 2002 JX8 will "safely fly past" Earth at 12pm on Friday (May 9).

A massive 950-foot asteroid, 612356 (2002 JX8), will make a close Earth flyby tomorrow, May 9. Here is all you need to know ...

Cleaning up space junk is more than just good housekeeping. Experts warn that the growing mass of debris represents an ...

Space might look empty when we gaze up at the night sky, but out there, scattered across asteroids, the Moon, and even Mars, ...

The Hayabusa2 mission captured the asteroid with eerie clarity against a pitch-black backdrop. The unsettling darkness of ...

JX8 will come within 2.6 million miles (4.2 million kilometers) of Earth, but ... More beyond the moon (not pictured here in ...

An asteroid named Apophis, officially designated 99942 Apophis, is due to pass closer to the Earth than some satellites orbit ...