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Former helicopter pilot Bruce Melnick has twice visited space on NASA shuttles and now works as an ambassador for the Kennedy Space Centre Visitor Complex in his native Florida

TUCSON, Ariz. — If you were to hover over El Presidio Plaza in downtown Tucson, you might catch sight of an earthen form resembling a point of impact, as if some object from the heavens came careening to earth and displaced several tons of vegetation and rock. Within this crater…

Asteroid 2023 BU will be making one of the closest approaches to the planet ever recorded

NASA's Lucy mission will investigate our origins. It will be the first to explore the Trojan asteroids, a large group that share Jupiter's orbit around the Sun.

There are over 31,000 near-Earth asteroids out in space, and many never pose a threat to our planet. Here's why close encounters shouldn't freak you out.

On Wednesday, NASA announced a new asteroid target for its Lucy mission. This brings the spacecraft's total asteroid tally up to nine.

Potassium and zinc were brought to Earth from distant space rocks.

The asteroid will travel 2,200 miles above the Earth's surface tonight

The 26ft asteroid will pass as close to Earth as the distance from London to Cairo and 10 times closer than satellites - and will be visible from our skies tonight