SpaceX will launch the Hera European Space Agency mission Monday morning from Cape Canaveral to study the Didymos binary asteroid system that was impacted by the DART mission.

In a fascinating cosmic event, Earth has temporarily captured a mini-moon, an asteroid now caught in Earth's gravitational pull. Named 2024 PT5, this tiny space rock was first spotted by astronomers ...

So, Earth has a "new moon," but before you get too excited about a cosmic sidekick, let’s set the record straight. Earth is ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully slammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos and demonstrated that ...

Planetary rings don’t last forever, although they do exist for millions of years. The evidence for Earth’s possible ring is ...

Earth has a second moon. Alas, it is to be but for just a short time! It is a small near-Earth asteroid about 10 meters ...

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on ...

In June and September of this year, scientists announced their decision to name four asteroids after the four Catholic ...

Scientists found a previously hidden massive asteroid crater in the Atlantic Ocean. Did two asteroids wipe out the dinosaurs?

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

T he Psyche mission is on its way to study the metallic asteroid of the same name, and on its journey, continues to test the ...

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