The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

Again, for some reason Jeff Goldblum comes to mind. In 2022, NASA purposely slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid in space to ...

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

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

New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to minimal levels, but its extraordinarily close approach will offer astronomers th ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Technology Media Workshop Telecon Briefing and tour at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, on September 12, 2022 ...

Hera is headed to Dimorphos as a follow-up to a 2022 NASA mission, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test. DART deliberately ...

NASA/ Johns Hopkins APL After analysing data from Nasa’s Dart mission, scientists concluded that it had successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit (Credit: NASA/ Johns Hopkins APL) When it ...

The asteroid which has a length of around 130 to ... to spot near-Earth objects (NEOs), and tests like NASA’s DART mission where a spacecraft was deliberately crashed into an asteroid to change ...

Europe's HERA mission has taken a good look at Mars and its moon Deimos on its way to explore the aftermath of the DART ...

Hera – named after the Greek goddess of marriage – is a follow up mission to the 2022 Nasa Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a planetary defence mission which crashed a spacecraft into ...