An international team of researchers with a wide range of backgrounds has found evidence of asteroids providing the compounds ...

Scientists are exploring the possibility of turning asteroid material into a viable food source for astronauts on ...

The European Space Agency launched its HERA spacecraft to study an asteroid NASA crashed into two years ago. The mission aims ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket snapped a pretty special in-space selfie on Monday (Oct. 7). The shot, captured during the launch of ...

The car-sized probe is part of a mission to better understand the ‘kinetic impact’ technique of asteroid deflection.

Near-Earth asteroids are closely monitored due to their implications for planetary defense. The team utilized ground-based ...

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Hera will attempt to go into orbit around the rocky pair, with the flyby distances gradually dropping from 18 miles all the ...

When a huge asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out the dinosaurs and drastically changed the planet. While the ...

The highly anticipated surveillance mission of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has launched on a journey to investigate the scene.

ESA's Hera spacecraft has embarked on a groundbreaking mission to the binary asteroid system, Didymos, to enhance planetary defense techniques. This mission follows NASA's successful DART mission ...

Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: there aren’t as many as we thought.