Then there’s the idea that asteroid fields are like an obstacle ... Oh, and if you tried to plant a flag on the Moon like in the movies, it wouldn’t flutter—there’s no wind to make it wave! Animation ...

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 ...

The Hera spacecraft, speeding on to an asteroid, took a look back at Earth's moon — and in a new animation, you can see our neighbor shrinking as Hera flies away. Hera's images of the Earth ...

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 ... rarely impact Earth, but when ...

But it also includes a surprising amount of role-playing, where teams war-game asteroid impact scenarios. “In the real world, we haven’t really gotten to this stage where we actually have to ...

Last month, the Earth's atmosphere was bombarded by a small, boulder-sized asteroid just hours after it had first been detected, having evaded early impact monitoring systems. The object ...

This asteroid is due to zoom past the Earth on October 28, passing us at a distance of about 148,000 miles, which is closer to our planet than the moon. This may sound like an immense distance ...

Spherules from an Archean impact layer, with a coin used for scale. Formed from molten debris that rained out from asteroid strikes, thick beds of these tiny orbs in Archean rocks are direct ...