NASA is also tracking two other asteroids near Earth today, including a larger bus-sized one called "2025 HR1" that's ...

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...

For more than a decade, scientists have debated the true identity of asteroid Vesta, a 500-kilometer-wide body that sits in a ...

Despite the overall reduction, NASA human space exploration initiatives would receive a $647 million increase in the proposed ...

Mission to a metal asteroid lacks xenon pressure NASA is looking into propulsion problems experienced by a probe on its way ...

The Trump administration is floating a plan to trim about $6 billion from the budget of NASA while emphasizing the importance ...

"Engineers with NASA’s Psyche mission are working to determine what caused a recent decrease in fuel pressure in the ...

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...

Cornell researchers are collecting data ahead of the anticipated launch of a NASA satellite that will provide advance notice ...

Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new ...

The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.

A new space telescope is mapping the sky in 102 colors — and it may just rewrite our understanding of the universe.