Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: There aren't as many as we thought.

Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the Chicxulub asteroid impact, but that was a wholly different story for the ...

Two years ago, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a small asteroid millions of miles from Earth to test a technique that could ...

A follow-up mission to DART, Hera will travel to a binary asteroid to observe the aftermath of NASA's wildly successful ...

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will investigate an asteroid that NASA deliberately struck with another spacecraft ...

The European Space Agency will probe a harmless asteroid Nasa hit in 2022 as part of a "planetary defence test".

The mission is heading out into space to study the impact of NASA's successful high-speed collision with an asteroid in 2022.

The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ...

A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed ...

In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In ...

Europe's Hera asteroid probe blasted off from Florida on a SpaceX rocket on Monday, beginning a two-year voyage to revisit an ...