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 space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

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

What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? This ...

Asteroid 2024 CY1 flew about 75,500 miles (121,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock is about 16 feet (8 m) wide. Credit: ...

AstroForce has received a commercial license for operating and communicating with a mission headed to a near-Earth asteroid, ...

Factorio: Space Age is a masterful expansion which repeatedly reinvents Factorio with each leg of its interplanetary journey.

A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

N ASA's planetary defense telescope Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) has burned up in the ...

Trump overcame an assassination attempt and a shift from Biden to Harris to win. Ferocity and extreme views that alienated ...

Whether it's asteroids, volcanoes, artificial intelligence (AI) or climate change that keeps you up at night, a new book by ...