The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its ...

The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos on Oct. 7, meant to follow up on NASA's ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft captured farewell views of Earth and the moon as it sails away into space to investigate the asteroid ...

The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific ...

The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ...

The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.

The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with ...

Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.

An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...

Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...

A dwarf planet hiding right in the middle of our solar system could be a surprising source of frozen water, astronomers ...

NASA has announced that asteroid 2024 TY21, measuring approximately 40 feet wide, will pass Earth safely today at a distance ...