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.

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

Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" of Earth impact.

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 ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

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