Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...

NASA will crash a spacecraft into an asteroid over 6 million miles away from Earth in just a couple of days. The DART test has been in the works for years; NASA first announced DART in 2019 ...

Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid ...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission is on its way toward Mars, where it will get a gravity assist before going on to its asteroid target.

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...

NASA’s DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) was a success, proving that we may stand a chance against the flying piles of rubble. In his new book, How to Kill An Asteroid, award ...

During this cubesat commissioning, we have not only confirmed the cubesat instruments and systems work as planned, but also validated the entire ground command infrastructure.' ...

The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific Ocean, seen from 1.6 million kilometers, or nearly 1 million miles, away. The ...

ForbesRare Asteroid Spotted Hours Before Impacting Earth ... but NASA and ESA are planning ahead with the DART and Hera missions. Scientists have discovered nearly 36,000 near-Earth asteroids ...