On its way the pair of near-Earth asteroids, Hera will swing by Mars in 2025 to help propel the spacecraft forward to its ...
Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: There aren't as many as we thought.
The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ...
Scientists have discovered new evidence that it wasn't just one asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
ESA has launched the first planetary defense Hera spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 to investigate NASA-deflected Dimorphos ...
Europe's Hera asteroid probe blasted off from Florida on a SpaceX rocket on Monday, beginning a two-year voyage to revisit an ...
The mission is heading out into space to study the impact of NASA's successful high-speed collision with an asteroid in 2022.
Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...
Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the Chicxulub asteroid impact, but that was a wholly different story for the ...