While Apophis is not currently on a direct path to hit Earth, all it might take is an encounter with an object as small as ...

A "bus-sized" asteroid being tracked by NASA will zoom safely past the Earth on Wednesday as both celestial objects make a close approach while orbiting around the sun. The space rock, known as ...

Four astronauts have returned to Earth from the International Space Station, in what was Nasa's first night-time ... It wasn't about the view. It was how the view made me feel." ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the ...

Every week, we take a bird's eye view of Earth, and see how it affects the people living on it. Earth from space This 2013 astronaut photo shows a giant eye-shaped impact crater in the Sahara ...