On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

The results of Hera's fly-by could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

On Monday, March 3, NASA reported there is almost no chance the asteroid would strike the Earth in 2032, but there was a 1.7% chance it could strike the moon. "While this asteroid no longer poses ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

(In real life, the asteroid came within 4 million miles of the Earth — 15 times the distance between our planet and moon, but a close shave by cosmic standards.) So was born “Project Icarus.” ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

Space probe Hera passed Mars while on its way to the Didymos asteroid system as part of planetary defence mission. View on euronews ...