Musk argues that mankind essentially has a duty to colonize other planets because sooner or later an asteroid impact could ...

Blue boulders have been seen on the surface of Mars in a vast crater believed to have been created by an asteroid.

What is the European Space Agency's Hera program? The ESA launched satellites on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Monday morning ...

At the end of 12 weeks, participants in the program scored their pain level an average 15.3 points lower (95% CI 5.3-25.3), ...

In late July, the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) transmitted laser data across 290 million miles from the Psyche ...

In this week's Degrees of Science we are talking about the temporary Mini-Moon that will orbit Earth for the next couple of months ...

The ESA spacecraft embarked on a two-year journey to the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos on Monday.

The Hera mission will investigate the result of NASA’s asteroid redirection test, in which the U.S. agency rammed a ...

The news was a relief for Fitzsimmons and the entire Hera team.

Every year, the Earth is treated to several meteor showers as we cross into their orbit, or they cross into ours. They are ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket snapped a pretty special in-space selfie on Monday (Oct. 7). The shot, captured during the launch of ...

The car-sized probe is part of a mission to better understand the ‘kinetic impact’ technique of asteroid deflection.