At the very edge of our solar system, beyond the grasp of Neptune and even past the icy sprawl of Pluto’s domain, a new ...

The gigantic space rock, which NASA compares to the size of a stadium, has a diameter of about 950 feet It may not be on a menacing trajectory, but it will still come close enough to Earth to ...

An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in just a few hours. The gigantic space rock, which NASA compares to the size of a ...

Imagine Earth Shrinking to the Size of Pluto Consider the astronomical and geological implications of a drastically smaller Earth. Roberts, Gorsuch Join Liberal Justices in Supreme Court ...

Using the Kepler space telescope, the agency had discovered an exoplanet the size of Earth located in the habitable zone of another star. The planet was the first of a similar size to Earth ...

Most near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids that range in size from about 10 feet to almost 25 miles across. Earlier this year in February, new data from NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object ...

The asteroid, measuring 165 meters in width—twice the size of the Taj Mahal—is heading toward Earth at a high speed of 77,282 km/hour. Although the asteroid will pass Earth from a safe ...

Earth will be getting a second moon in the form ... Marcos of the Complutense University of Madrid told Space.com The bus-size asteroid, which was discovered on August 7 by the NASA-funded ...

“We’ve found the nearest, transiting, temperate, Earth-size world located to date,” said Masayuki Kuzuhara, a project assistant professor at the Astrobiology Center in Tokyo and co-leader of ...