The asteroid known as 2012 TC4 is set to pass us by at a safe distance of 27,300 miles in October.
An asteroid due to pass the Earth in October is to become a target for a planetary defense exercise.
The footage has been constructed from the thousands of photographs taken by the New Horizons probe.
Former NASA engineer Mark Rober has created a super-powerful water gun capable of firing at 243mph.
The space probe has captured staggeringly detailed shots of Jupiter's centuries-old Great Red Spot.
NASA's Juno probe will soon be embarking on a long-awaited flyby of Jupiter's most prominent feature.
Stephen Hawking is hoping to send a space probe to a potentially habitable world around Alpha Centauri.
The so-called 'first nation state in space' is about to make its first foray in to the final frontier.
The probe, which has been renamed the Parker Solar Probe, will be launching as early as next year.
Aerospace entrepreneur and NASA partner Robert Bigelow believes that ET is already here on Earth.
'Back to the Future' director Robert Zemeckis will be producing a new TV series about Project Blue Book.
Known as Solar Probe Plus, the mission will be officially revealed in an announcement on Wednesday.
The iron-rich asteroid 16 Psyche is so valuable that, if mined, it would collapse the global economy.
Following its groundbreaking flyby of Pluto, the probe is now on its way to another Kuiper Belt object.
Far from being a modern phenomenon, antibiotic-resistant microbes have existed for millions of years.
Symbols found at Gobekli Tepe seem to confirm that a comet struck the Earth in the year 10,950 B.C.
Researchers have found evidence of microbes surviving up to six miles beneath the Mariana Trench.
NASA's long-lived Cassini spacecraft will soon begin its first in a series of final orbits around Saturn.
A new radar technique has made it possible to locate a derelict spacecraft in orbit around the Moon.
In a remarkable breakthrough, microbes trapped inside cave crystals have been brought back to life.