The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos on Oct. 7, meant to follow up on NASA's ...

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

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

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

According to experiments and computer simulations, the radiation of a nuclear blast could be enough to change the trajectory of an asteroid threatening Earth—if spotted in time. About 66 million ...

Dodging stormy weather ahead of Hurricane Milton, SpaceX launched the European Space Agency's $398 million Hera probe Monday on a follow-up flight to find out precisely how a moonlet orbiting a ...

The extinction of the dinosaurs has been a hotly debated topic for decades, and whether it was an asteroid, a volcanic eruption or even poisonous plant species. But researchers have found hard ...

Learn about the NEOWISE mission, NASA's asteroid-hunting space telescope, which retired in summer 2024 after over a decade of discovering, tracking, and characterizing near-Earth objects (NEOs) — ...

“Great view. We’ve got successful deployment of the Hera spacecraft.” The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will investigate an asteroid that NASA deliberately struck with another ...