For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...

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

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

"In many ways, Odin has become both a pioneer and a teacher — continuing its mission by informing our future endeavors, even ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...

At first, AstroForge kept its target asteroid a secret, fearing competitors. But in January, the company announced the destination, an object called 2022 OB5. Mr. Gialich said he was more ...

Torres: 3.1 percent is not high but it is the highest risk level of a space rock crashing into us, ever. Except for the one ...

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

AstroForge's Odin asteroid probe, the box-shaped spaceraft at center right, is seen after launch beneath the private ...

NASA says Earth is in the clear from asteroid 2024 YR4, which previously had a small chance of impacting our planet in 2032.

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

Again, for some reason Jeff Goldblum comes to mind. In 2022, NASA purposely slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid in space to try and change its trajectory. The initiative is known as DART or the ...