The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

A Near-Earth Object (NEO)—an asteroid designated 2025 YU6—is expected to make a close approach to Earth on January 11, 2026. According to the data released by the European Space Agency (ESA), the ...

Time moves differently in space. Near black holes, gravity slows clocks and stretches seconds. This explainer reveals how time bends and affects astronauts and Earth.

Thousands of asteroids pass near Earth every year, but few have ever caused real concern. Apophis is one of them. Discovered in 2004, this near-Earth object was once thought to have a significant ...

Discoveries can come from the most unlikely places — at least, that's what one high schooler found out, after finding nearly ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s hurtling towards Earth at more than 38,500 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to ...

Black holes are powerful space objects that can pull in nearby stars. But how does this really happen? In this kid-friendly science explainer, learn how black holes stretch, heat and slowly “eat” ...

Lately we've been reporting about a series of studies on the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), NASA's flagship telescope ...

“This is the first planet candidate with Earth-like radius and orbital properties transiting a Sun-like star bright enough ...

An artist’s conception zeroes in on a main-belt asteroid called 2025 MN45, which makes a full rotation in less than two minutes. (Credit: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory / NOIRLab / SLAC / AURA / P.