Astronomers at the Complutense University of Madrid first spotted this intriguing event using a powerful telescope in ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

The Hera mission is headed for the Didymos binary asteroid system. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Mission (DART) smashed ...

A school-bus-sized asteroid will pass by Earth this Wednesday, November 13, 2024, coming closer than the moon.

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

Earth is a profoundly isolated rock. The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured ...

As ESA's Hera mission for planetary defense departed its homeworld, it looked back to Earth to show the moon orbiting around ...

Credit: ESA/JAXA Goodnight room, goodnight moon. The Hera spacecraft, speeding on to an asteroid, took a look back at Earth's moon — and in a new animation, you can see our neighbor shrinking as ...

The Earth’s natural resources are enormous but not infinite. A lack of some rare minerals can hinder technological ...