NASA scientists are already finding ways to make sure that the end of the world will not be caused by an asteroid.

Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye all February long — with two other planets also detectable for skywatchers ...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., wants nothing to do with the microscopic dust particles clinging to your clothing. So before you enter the room, you first must stand in a chamber ...

NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission is a groundbreaking space mission designed to study ...

NASA’s PUNCH mission will explore the connection between the sun’s corona and the solar wind using 3D imaging.

Because the Moon is over a quarter the diameter of Earth, the Earth-Moon system is often cited as the pairing in our Solar ...

A little-known volcano on a remote Pacific island may have been the source of one of the 19th century’s most powerful ...

There are two types of eclipses - a lunar eclipse, when Earth's shadow obscures the moon and a solar eclipse, which takes place when the Moon blocks the sun from view, according to NASA.

YR4, the asteroid has a 2.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22, 2032, according to the European Space Agency.

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured a "tube of cooler atmospheric gases snaking its way through the Sun’s magnetic field," according to ESA. See it "slither" in these time-lapsed views. Credit: ESA & ...