LOS ANGELES — Earth is about to get a new neighbor in the form of an asteroid. But this one won’t be making an impact.

The installation of habitats, landing pads, equipment shelters, tall towers on the moon could be off to a shaky start.

For astronauts venturing out into the Solar System, it's not just the cold vacuum of space that poses a major hazard. On ...

Planetary scientists are confident this moon of Jupiter harbors a deep ocean. A looming question is whether it hosts the ...

That's when Malcolm Denemark, FLORIDA TODAY senior photographer, snagged this moodily mystical Photo of the Week, a closeup ...

You can see the astroid, named 2024 PT5, for a short time before it heads on its way.

It's so big, this newly discovered asteroid is said to become a "mini-moon" before it escapes back into orbit around the sun again. Those watching from afar say it could be as large as 138 feet in ...

An asteroid heading towards Earth is set to have an unusual fate: instead of smashing through our planet’s atmosphere, it’s ...

From late September until late November this year, a “mini-moon”, called 2024 PT5 by the astrologers who spotted it ...

I’ve had a love affair with the planet Saturn ever since I first saw it through my first telescope almost 60 years ago. Even though the image was tiny, I could see the ring system around the great ...

The three-quarter moon rose over Europe last week as serene and remote as ever, but dropping faster and faster through its gravitational field was a small, alien object: a metal sphere blazoned ...