ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...

What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? This ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists ...

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

The European Space Agency's Hera mission captured imagery of Earth and the moon shrinking as the spacecraft was en route to the asteroid Dimorphos.

Everyone’s focused on the risk of this object one day hitting Earth, but just getting close to us may do extreme things to it ...