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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

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

Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...