An artist's conception of the European Space Agency's Hera craft traveling through the solar system. Credit: ESA-Science Office The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid.

Apophis is the ancient Greek name for the Egyptian god of chaos Apep. The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, ...

Studying the asteroid could help researchers understand whether similar objects may have brought these ancient ingredients to Earth billions of years ago. Researchers do study space rocks that ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft as it would look in space. Dimorphos is a small moonlet that orbits the bigger asteroid Didymos. In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into Dimorphos to see if it could change ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft ...

A rocket has blasted off into space on a mission to discover what happened when a spacecraft intentionally crashed into a ...

Today, the probability of an asteroid that size wiping out humanity is quite low, but there are thousands of smaller space rocks lurking around Earth’s orbit capable of destroying entire cities ...

However, Vestri will separate once in space and continue to the target asteroid, closely studying its composition. Its main task is verifying the quality of the valuable metals within it.

we have been repeatedly reminded that our spot in space is shared with a number of other objects, some of which might be dangerous. Last month, for instance, the Earth was struck by an asteroid ...

Asteroid prospecting company AstroForge has been awarded the first-ever commercial license for operating and communicating with a spacecraft in deep space, ahead of its Odin mission that's set to ...

MILAN — The European Space Agency (ESA) has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with an asteroid due to make a close approach to Earth in 2029. ESA signed a contract worth €63 ...

Asteroid mining might sound like something out of science fiction, but experts say it could be the path to out-of-this-world wealth. According to Matt Gialich, founder of space mining company ...