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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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