Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...

Bacteria grown from carbon compounds in asteroids could be turned into a kind of nutritionally balanced milkshake ...

Tiny Satellites, Big Advantages. CubeSats' advantages over larger satellites are significant. CubeSats are cheaper to develop ...

Any time you see a headline about an asteroid heading towards the planet, you can relax. Big and small asteroids fly by Earth ...

Researchers have imaged a hidden scar, which is the evidence of a cataclysmic event that impacted Earth millions of years ago ...

A second moon has officially entered Earth’s orbit — sort of. Although it’s being called a “mini-moon,” the object is ...

New research shows that ants have been farming fungi for 66 million years — thanks in part to the asteroid that fueled the ...

The Hera mission will explore an asteroid deflection test. It also gives startups a chance to refine their technologies.

The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which had its orbit altered by NASA’s DART mission in 2022 ...

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

A new study reveals a second asteroid impact, near the time of the dinosaurs` demise, off the coast of Guinea.