The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully moved asteroid moonlet Dimorphos "by a whopping 33 minutes," according to NASA. See the highlights here. Credit: NASA ...

The asteroid Apophis, nicknamed the "God of Chaos," is set to pass by Earth on November 13th. While scientists assure it ...

The asteroid Apophis, nicknamed the "God of Chaos," is set for a near-Earth flyby on November 13, passing within 19,000 miles ...

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

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

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 ...

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.

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

Do you want to know how lonely our planet actually is? Just check out the latest images taken by the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft. As it flew towards an asteroid, the probe captured photos ...

The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon, set against the black ether of space. The two objects gradually shrink as Hera ...