NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Jim Free, associate administrator at NASA, is set to retire on Feb. 22 after three decades of service.

Human beings have been striving for years to learn more about the planets neighboring Earth. In particular, the efforts have focused on Mars, where the Curiosity rover has been pla ...

Chances are increasing that a large asteroid, dubbed YR4, will strike Earth in 2032, possibly resulting in large-scale ...

A Delta Air Lines regional jet flipped upside down upon landing at Canada's Toronto Pearson Airport on Monday amid windy ...

Passengers aboard a Delta Air Lines flight that flipped upside down upon landing at Toronto Pearson Airport on Monday ...

Actor Angela Bassett joins TODAY to talk about her role as the president in the new six-part Netflix series “Zero Day” ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...

Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...