Two years ago, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a small asteroid millions of miles from Earth to test a technique that could ...
ESA has launched the first planetary defense Hera spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 to investigate NASA-deflected Dimorphos ...
Scientists have discovered new evidence that it wasn't just one asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
A follow-up mission to DART, Hera will travel to a binary asteroid to observe the aftermath of NASA's wildly successful ...
How could we feed astronauts on lengthy space missions? These researchers have a quirky idea.
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 ...
A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. It's the second part of a planetary defense test ...
European spacecraft launches to a harmless asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed into in previous save-the-Earth 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 European Space Agency’s Hera mission will investigate an asteroid that NASA deliberately struck with another spacecraft ...