Hollywood films would have you believe that the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of ...

A scientists has warned that a destructive asteroid could be heading towards Earth and we don't have the technology to detect ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

Another city-killer asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth completely undetected, a space agency chief had warned. Luca ...

Good news for those concerned about reports of a potential asteroid impact in 2032: NASA has dramatically lowered the ...

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

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

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...

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

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...