He predicted that 2020 would be a "great trouble for humanity". Well, that was true. And he says a greater trouble is coming ...

The Japanese asteroid-sampling spacecraft Hayabusa2 has been forced into protective "safe mode" while journeying through deep space.

The agency said that key components of the ambitious project, including the Long March 10 heavy-lift carrier rocket, the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein has been moved to a New York City hospital after a judge approved the ailing ex-studio ...

But a second “moon” entered Earth’s orbit Sunday and will loop around the planet until late November ... in 2020. The Scientific American projected that Earth will briefly pull the asteroid ...

Saturn’s rings will be edge-on twice in 2025, in March and November. From 2019 to 2023 ... of a string of numbers and letters, such as “S/2020 S 27”. Without a solid definition of what ...

Asteroid Donaldjohanson has turned out to be a picturesque waypoint as NASA’s mission heads toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has captured striking images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing it to be a contact binary with an ...

This 150-million-year old space rock may look like a badly-shaped potato but studying it could help scientists understand how ...

The Lucy mission is on a 12-year journey to explore a peculiar set of asteroids that lead and follow Jupiter as it orbits the Sun. As it journeys to these Trojan asteroids, the probe is preparing for ...

NASA’s space-faring probe Lucy is set have a close encounter with an oddly shaped asteroid more than 100 million miles from Earth — and scientists aren’t sure what they’re going to find.

(AP) — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter. Report an error ...