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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Space probe Hera passed Mars while on its way to the Didymos asteroid system as part of planetary defence mission.

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

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

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...