NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour.

Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...

Their sizes vary significantly ... Earth's doorstep—are at any risk of colliding with our planet in the near future. According to NASA, asteroid impacts on Earth are mercifully rare events ...

Scientists analyzing pulverized rock onboard NASA's Curiosity rover have found the largest organic compounds on the red ...

The research team used data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet ... shape planet formation," Fernandes said. "If planets commonly form at specific sizes and locations, we should see a similar ...