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

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 ...

Meet NASA’s NEO Surveyor, the space telescope identifying hazardous asteroids and comets within 48 million kilometres of ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A massive asteroid, roughly the size of a stadium pitch, will pass by Earth on October 17. Named 2024 RV50, the asteroid is ...

The "mini-moon" is going to continue to orbit Earth with our moon for a total of 57 days. On Nov. 25, the asteroid is ...