"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

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

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

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

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

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

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 ...

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...