ESA's Hera spacecraft captured farewell views of Earth and the moon as it sails away into space to investigate the asteroid ...

The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission has beamed back its first images from space, capturing a stunning view of ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket snapped a pretty special in-space selfie on Monday (Oct. 7). The shot, captured during the launch of ...

Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.

A comet, known as C/2023 A3, was visible over the weekend in the Mother Lode, and the viewing window across the West is ...

A new "mini-moon" the size of a city bus is circling our planet and will continue hanging out in our skies until Thanksgiving ...

The internet has been buzzing about the so-called "mini-moon" that will remain in Earth's gravitational orbit for roughly two months. The 33-foot-long asteroid known as 2024 PT5 was discovered by ...

A blast of X-rays from a nuclear explosion should be enough to save Earth from an incoming asteroid, according to the results of a first-of-its-kind experiment. The findings, published 1 on 23 ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is set to launch a mission that will assess how effective humanity could be in protecting Earth from an asteroid impact. Called Hera, the mission will visit a rock ...

This past weekend, and again Monday evening, a comet that last passed by earth 80,000 years ago is expected to appear to be ...

The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by ...

The aim of the mission was to find out how much that impact changed the asteroid's trajectory with a view of fending off future space-rock threats using the same technique to avoid a fiery collision ...