A spacecraft is on its way to visit an asteroid that US space agency Nasa knocked off course in 2022. The Hera craft launched ...

On October 7, NASA inspected the approximate approach of asteroid 2024 TW2, a large rock formation that swiftly passed Earth ...

A follow-up mission to DART, Hera will travel to a binary asteroid to observe the aftermath of NASA's wildly successful ...

The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ...

The space rock, named 2016 JG38, after the year it was discovered, is classed by the US space agency as a "Near Earth Object" ...

In humanity’s latest bid to avoid going the way of the dinosaurs, a European spacecraft soared away from the coast of Florida ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A ...

Scientists simulated a nuclear explosion using x-ray pulses to push an asteroid-like rock away in space-like conditions.

The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by ...

But a new study suggests that this huge asteroid wasn't alone. Scientists from Heriot Watt University have discovered evidence that a second devastating space rock smashed into Earth in the same year.

Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, ...

The NASA spacecraft hit the roughly 160 meters in diameter Dimorphos, which orbits a larger asteroid — the 780 meter Didymos.