After Hera speeds past Mars, it's onward to Didymos and its now -misshapen companion Dimorphos (thanks to the collision), ...

ESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its ...

Astronomers have employed the Hubble Space Telescope to uncover a largely unseen population of smaller asteroids in our solar ...

2013 NK4, for example, made its closest approach on Monday, harmlessly passing our planet by more than eight times the ...

The Winchcombe meteorite, which fell to the ground in Gloucestershire in the U.K. after blazing a trail through ... and atom ...

S space scientists on Thursday unveiled the interplanetary probe NASA plans to send to one of Jupiter's icy moons as part of humanity's hunt for extra-terrestrial life. The Clipper spacecraft is ...

US space scientists unveil Nasa's mission to investigate Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of alien life. The spacecraft Clipper, set for launch in October, aims to study Europa's icy surface and ...

US space scientists on Thursday unveiled the interplanetary probe NASA plans to send to one of Jupiter's icy moons as part of humanity's hunt for extra-terrestrial life. The Clipper spacecraft is ...

An asteroid is expected to come extremely close ... or potentially hazardous objects (PHOs), and NASA is tracking around 2,350 of them. These are defined as being closer to the Earth than 4.6 ...

NASA is regularly ... findings was the Bennu asteroid sample. The sample was the result of a seven-year mission and was delivered to Earth via the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Sept.