The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

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 ...

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 company’s Odin spacecraft was launched successfully on Feb. 26, but it soon encountered huge communication difficulties, ...

This week, follow the journeys of two lunar landers, meet “woolly mice,” see the oldest known bone tools, and more.

Experiments suggest that processes in the interior of the moon could keep it swathed in an atmosphere that should otherwise ...

This is the 10th crewed mission under Nasa’s Commercial Crew Programme, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon Endurance will ...

Rounding out the rest of Crew-10, the 10th SpaceX crew to go to the ISS, are NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, Roscosmos ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

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

The year 2028 will be the next opportunity to observe the asteroid as it returns to an observable distance for Earth-based ...