"In many ways, Odin has become both a pioneer and a teacher — continuing its mission by informing our future endeavors, even ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

AstroForge's Odin asteroid probe, the box-shaped spaceraft at center right, is seen after launch beneath the private ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

Observations from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope helped show that the expected trajectory of asteroid 2024 YR4 poses nearly zero risk of impacting Earth in 2032.

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) has achieved a significant milestone by successfully completing the Critical ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

The outlook for a private spacecraft to conduct a fly-by mission of an asteroid known as 2022 OB5 looks bleak after a series ...

Europe's Hera spacecraft flew by Mars this week on its way to catch up with an asteroid and tested out its cameras on the Red ...