The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

The asteroid, 2024 YR4, was detected by UH’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and given a 3% probability ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is just one of more than a million asteroids in orbit, but just another out of the 35,000 “near-Earth ...

Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.

The cosmos has always fascinated humanity with its vast mysterious expanse holding both beauty and potential danger. Among ...

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

For a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the ... Although YR4 no longer poses a threat, it’s increasingly clear that Earth inhabits a dangerous neighborhood. Keeping out ...