For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon, set ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

Goodnight room, goodnight moon. The Hera spacecraft, speeding on to an asteroid, took a look back at Earth's moon — and in a new animation, you can see our neighbor shrinking as Hera flies away.

This allowed Hera to capture the first images of Earth and the Moon from a distance of more than one million km!" SEE ALSO: We could nuke an incoming asteroid. Scientists just proved it.

The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid. But on the way there, the probe looked back home, capturing views of isolated Earth and the moon floating in space. Some of Hera ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission has beamed back its first images from space ...

Once feared to pose a threat to Earth, asteroid Apophis is now a subject ... miles), which is more than 20 times the distance to the Moon. Origin and discovery of Apophis The name "Apophis ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942 ... twelfth the distance from the Earth to the Moon. Nevertheless, this is ...