YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

Another plane-sized space rock, known as the "2025 DY5" and measuring about 92 feet across, will zip past our planet this ...

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

A massive 150-foot airplane-sized asteroid is set to pass Earth tomorrow, prompting NASA to issue a cautionary alert., ...

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 ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

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. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

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

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

NASA has issued an earthly arrival date for an asteroid valued at a staggering £10,000,000,000,000,000,000. The government ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...