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

The mission aims to re-visit the asteroid Nasa diverted when it crashed a probe into it.

A spacecraft blasted off Monday to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft ...

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

The Hera spacecraft, which took flight late Monday morning, is part of a broader effort to bolster humanity’s planetary defense readiness.

how fast it was going and the impact the asteroid had on the seabed and underlying rock. The asteroid was likely 450 to 500 meters in size, traveling at 20 kilometers per second and hit the Earth ...

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

A European spacecraft is on its way to get an up-close look at an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed its own vehicle ...