The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission has beamed back its first images from space, capturing a stunning view of ...

The Ramses mission would rendezvous with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its 2029 close approach to Earth.

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

Asteroid 2024 RV50, measuring 710 feet, will make a close approach to Earth on October 18, 2024, passing at a distance of ...

Ice on ancient asteroids like Ryugu may have been crucial in kickstarting life on Earth. Researchers from Imperial and ...

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

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

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

A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed ...

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 ...

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