The results of Hera's fly-by could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

A European spacecraft on a journey to study NASA's asteroid crash site did a quick pop-in of Mars on its way, capturing ...

The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...

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And with new asteroid-hunting telescopes coming online all the time, astronomers are likely to see many more close calls ... of hitting Earth had crept up above 1%, which triggered the United ...

In October, a craft from the European Space Agency is on the way to get an up-close look at the asteroid's remnants. NASA is additionally working on an asteroid-hunting telescope known as the ...

giving astronomers a rare opportunity to observe an asteroid up close. “We are not expecting the impact probability to rise back above 1 per cent for the close approach with Earth in 2032 ...

As of October, a craft from the ESA is on the way to get an up-close look at the asteroid's remnants.

“An index system is proposed which places the hazard posed by any given close approach into ... calculated probability go up. Eventually we will pin down the asteroid’s position to that ...