Europe's HERA mission has taken a good look at Mars and its moon Deimos on its way to explore the aftermath of the DART ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft inaugurated use of its science instruments to image the smaller of the planet's two moons, Deimos.

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a collision course with Earth. “Only a few asteroids have been studied like this,” Bryce Bolin, a NASA astronomer involved in the photo ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

The striking new images of asteroid YR4 2024 were captured by a ... Bryce Bolin, a NASA astronomer involved in the photo operation, told Space.com: "Only a few asteroids have been studied like ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

FILE - This May 18, 1969 photo provided by NASA shows Earth from ... (NASA via AP) This image made available by University of Hawaii's asteroid impact alert system, shows an arrow where asteroid ...