The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket captured amazing images of Earth Monday (Oct. 7) during the launch of Europa's ...

NASA has been on an alert and its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has been keeping track of three asteroids which will pass ...

Near-Earth asteroids are closely monitored due to their implications for planetary defense. The team utilized ground-based ...

Scientists have discovered a second crater which they believe as caused by an asteroid which struck earth in same era as the ...

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

The asteroids, named 2018 QE, 2024 TD3, and 2024 TK3, are part of NASA's ongoing efforts to monitor space objects.

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

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which successfully returned a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu in 2023, has provided ...

A spacecraft is on its way to visit an asteroid that US space agency Nasa knocked off course in 2022. The Hera craft launched ...

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

We took advantage of a rare opportunity when this swarm of asteroids passed closer to Earth, allowing us to more efficiently ...

Mini-moons are incredibly rare, with only a handful of instances ever recorded, including similar events in 1981 and 2022. After its short visit, 2024 PT5 is not expected to return until 2055. If you ...