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 ...

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

As ESA's Hera mission for planetary defense departed its homeworld, it looked back to Earth to show the moon orbiting around ...

Earth’s newly captured mini-moon 2024 PT5 will depart in November, highlighting the fascination with transient asteroids.

Goodnight room, goodnight moon. 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.

On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.

The European Space Agency's Hera mission captured imagery of Earth and the moon shrinking as the spacecraft was en route to the asteroid Dimorphos.

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

Goodnight room, goodnight moon. 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.

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

Enter at <a href=" for your chance to win a Superformance MKIII-R and support a great cause, The Petersen Automotive Museum.A giant asteroid is headed our way. But no, it won't hit the Earth. This ...