For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon, set ...

Saturn gets close to the moon tonight, and skywatchers in Florida, northwestern South America, the Caribbean and Central ...

As ESA's Hera mission for planetary defense departed its homeworld, it looked back to Earth to show the moon orbiting around ...

The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission has beamed back its first images from space, capturing a stunning view of Earth and the moon. The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new ...

Scientists first caught sight of the mini-moon while observing an asteroid named Polymele, near the outskirts of the solar system. NASA says that the asteroid is around 17 miles along its widest axis.