For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

But, along with the contemporaneous Deep Impact, these movies brought the very real threat of asteroid strikes to global attention. Among other factors, these movies also arguably helped convince ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple ... But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept.

This allowed Hera to capture the first images of Earth and the Moon from a distance of more than one million km!" SEE ALSO: We could nuke an incoming asteroid. Scientists just proved it.

AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new ...

While the origins of these asteroids aren’t completely known, scientists believe at least one may have come from the Moon. The asteroid known as Kamo`oalewa is believed to be a fragment of the ...

Hera's journey to asteroid Dimorphos. To get to asteroid Dimorphos, Hera performed its first maneuver with two bursts from ...

The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid. But on the way there, the probe looked back home, capturing views of isolated Earth and the moon floating in space. Some of Hera ...