A 1,300-pound NASA probe re-entered Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday, nearly 14 years after it was launched. The U.S. Space Force confirmed the Van Allen Probe A, which was launched in August 2012, ...

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to ...

NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Around 15 percent of near-Earth asteroids have small moons, which suggests binary systems are fairly common. Many of the larger asteroid pairs have likely formed ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft finally reached the giant asteroids Vesta and Ceres, scientists expected simple rocky worlds.

The pair, millions of miles away, continues to pose no danger to Earth, and scientists say it will remain safely distant for at least the next century. But the experiment has already delivered ...

Ever wondered how those weird, floating "snowmen" way out in the deep freeze of the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune's orbit manage ...

Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed the first direct evidence that asteroids in a binary system can exchange rocks and dust. Slow moving debris from the asteroid Didymos appears to have struck ...

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it—a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks.

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun.

The indoor roller coaster debuts March 6 as part of the new Lego Galaxy themed land at the Carlsbad theme park.

The new Galacticoaster is the ride I’ve always wished Legoland California would build that appeals to all four quadrants of a young family — the smallest toddler eager for adventure, the tween ready ...