The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

Jupiter's auroras, though, put Earth's to shame. Not only are the auroras on Jupiter gigantic, they are hundreds of times more energetic than those in Earth’s atmosphere, according to NASA.

Now, almost exactly a year since one of Earth’s most impressive light shows, researchers have released brilliant new images of Jupiter’s auroras, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The atmosphere around Jupiter’s poles then expanded, producing a thermal wave across the planet about 12 times as long as Earth’s diameter.

The newest visitor is 416 million miles (670 million kilometers) from the sun, out near Jupiter. NASA said the comet will make its closest approach to the sun in October, scooting between the ...

Millions of asteroids, not a planet, exist in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. If all asteroids combined, their mass would be only 4% of the Moon's mass.