The European Space Agency's Hera mission is on its way toward Mars, where it will get a gravity assist before going on to its asteroid target.

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...

ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...

Ditto for the Leonids, according to NASA, which will be visible through Dec. 2, although their peak will come around this ...

Tengrinews.kz - For years, scientists have observed intriguing "patterns" on Venus known as tesserae, unique features found ...

In 2029, asteroid Apophis will come close to Earth, potentially triggering tremors and landslides on its surface.

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists ...

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...