ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...

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 ...

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

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...

recently spotted a small asteroid that will temporarily orbit Earth during October and November, essentially becoming a mini moon. While that asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will come as close as about ...

The asteroid is about 37 feet wide, about the size of a school bus. In relation to our moon, it is 300,000 times smaller. It was discovered on Aug. 7 during routine monitoring by scientists using ...

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 ...

We start with the news of the Europa Clipper and its search for the conditions of life on a watery moon around Jupiter. Then we talk about Earth’s new mini moon, before catching up on what’s ...

So, as the moon's shadow passed in front of the sun ... steering the 1,210-pound (550 kilograms), $314 million Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos ...

linking them to the moon, Mars or Vesta (one of the largest asteroids in our solar system’s asteroid belt), per a statement. Now, though, an international team of experts has identified the ...

The mission will use the spacecraft design developed for the Hera mission that launched Oct. 7 to the asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos, the target of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test.