Two bus-sized asteroids are set to pass by Earth safely this week, starting with a 7-meter-long space rock named 2024 JF, expected on Monday evening.

The asteroid, which was no more than 1 meter wide, was spinning once every 2.588 seconds, equivalent to approximately 30,000 rotations per day.

Imagine Earth is cruising along its normal orbit around the Sun when suddenly it passes through the leftover pieces of rock from a comet or asteroid. Comets and asteroids shed bits and bobs of ...

Comets and asteroids shed bits and bobs of themselves along their journey as they get closer to the Sun. When Earth zips through this trail of space debris, meteors streak across the sky like shooting ...

Asteroid Kamo'oalewa, the target of China’s upcoming Tianwen-2 mission, likely was blasted from the Giordano Bruno crater on the far side of the moon, as seen here by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance ...

The Field Museum’s iconic T. rex, Sue, may be a little jealous. There’s a new exhibit in town, Archaeopteryx, and it’s “perhaps the most important fossil ever discovered,” museum President ...

Astronomers expect 2024 JF to make its closest approach at 8:04 p.m. ET tonight (1204 GMT on Tuesday). It will be followed by the 10-meter-long (32-feet) asteroid named 2024 JR1, which is expected to ...

While most of the team’s new finds are located in the main asteroid belt, about 100 are near-Earth asteroids that pass close ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told NPR he sees the U.S. in an urgent race with China to find water on the moon, and that he ...

Check back for live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team launch updates on this page, starting at 6:30 p.m. in tandem with NASA TV live mission coverage.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told NPR he sees the U.S. in an urgent race with China to find water on the moon, and that he ...

Now, NASA has broken the distance record for data transmission via lasers. On April 8, the Psyche spacecraft, currently en ...