ESA's Hera spacecraft captured farewell views of Earth and the moon as it sails away into space to investigate the asteroid ...

The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific ...

Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.

A small international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has confirmed that asteroid 2019 UO14 is a Trojan asteroid of ...

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The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with ...

The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.

Earth's newest celestial neighbor has finally arrived. Astronomers using a powerful telescope in Sutherland, South Africa, ...

Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has issued a notice regarding an asteroid approaching Earth today, measuring roughly ...