Four massive asteroids are heading towards Earth tomorrow. Find out when they'll arrive, their speed, and how close they'll ...

A massive 710-foot stadium-sized asteroid, 2024 RV50, will make a close approach to Earth tomorrow, October 18.

But experts say the asteroid was an important milestone in planetary defense research. Though there are hundreds of moons in our solar system, our planet only has one. And while thousands of ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is set to launch a mission that will assess how effective humanity could be in protecting Earth from an asteroid impact. Called Hera, the mission will visit a rock ...

The next generation spacesuits will be worn by astronauts on the upcoming Artemis missions to the lunar surface.

Apollo mission astronauts who visited the moon ... In 2018, Japan deployed hopping rovers on a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu, including the Germany-France developed Mobile Asteroid Surface ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...

Scientists have pinpointed the age of the moon's largest impact basin, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, to over 4.32 ...

Our descendants will — at some time in the future — almost certainly need to deflect an asteroid. But it's possible that in some scenarios a nuclear blast would be necessary. Especially if we ...

Hera will arrive in 2026 at Dimorphos, the target of NASA's DART mission.