The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its ...
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 OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with ...
On June 30 1908, a significant asteroid impact event in the Tunguska area of Siberia wiped out 80 million trees across 830 ...
Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.
Meet NASA’s NEO Surveyor, the space telescope identifying hazardous asteroids and comets within 48 million kilometres of ...
Scientists have found that after the asteroid wiped out many plants, ants started farming fungi to help them survive and get ...
Samples from asteroid Ryugu have once again surprised scientists, challenging previous ideas about how carbon-rich asteroids ...
A house-sized asteroid is set to fly past Earth on 20 October. Known as 2024 SH1, the asteroid measures around 48 feet across ...
The meteor’s impact triggered a cascade of effects. It kicked up so much dust that the sky darkened. As the sun dimmed, ...