You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

Hera and its two cubesats arrived at their launch site in Florida in early September following a transatlantic flight from Germany, with a stop in Ireland. The mission's launch window opens on Oct. 7 ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

When NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon called Dimorphos in 2022, the ...

A chance encounter with another asteroid could steer Apophis destructively close to Earth during a future passage.

NASA's DART impact shifted an asteroid's orbit, creating debris that may reach Earth or Mars. ESA's Hera mission will ...

Rocky debris blasted from Dimorphos asteroid when agency’s spacecraft was flown into it could now be on collision course ...

Come 2034, humans could witness the first-ever artificial meteor shower sparked by activity in space.

On September 26, 2022, the DART spacecraft successfully impacted the asteroid Dimorphos, altering its orbit around the larger ...

To defend the Earth from nearby asteroids, China will reportedly adopt an “escort plus impact plus escort” mode, which is ...

The impact of NASA’s DART mission, which successfully altered a smaller asteroid’s orbit in space by a whopping 33 minutes, ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera mission on Tuesday began its journey to explore an asteroid and its first stop is the ...