The asteroid Apophis, named after the Egyptian god of chaos, is set to pass remarkably close to Earth in 2029. While posing ...

An asteroid hit Earth hours after it was detected, evading NASA's early warning system, in the third close call of its kind ...

The diminutive size of the asteroid meant that it posed very little threat to anything on the ground. In fact, it burned up in the atmosphere over the ... sound – STMDailyNews As we look forward, this ...

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.

Prelim: Summer 2025 will be the 100th anniversary of the arrival of Herbert Chapman at Arsenal, and to commemorate this we are publishing a series on Chpaman, and how the most unlikely transfer of a ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

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 ...

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

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

"So, we think that events of much smaller magnitude could plausibly shake things up on its surface ... a novel mechanism for ...

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