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 spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has taught us a lot about the nature of asteroids and the history of our planet, and it's not done ...

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 ...

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

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

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