Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...

Europe's Hera asteroid probe will use the Red Planet for a gravity assist on its way to scope out the space rock crash site ...

A school-bus-sized asteroid will pass by Earth this Wednesday, November 13, 2024, coming closer than the moon.

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

Goodnight room, goodnight moon. The Hera spacecraft, speeding on to an asteroid, took a look back at Earth's moon — and in a new animation, you can see our neighbor shrinking as Hera flies away.

Earth is a profoundly isolated rock. The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured ...

The Earth’s natural resources are enormous but not infinite. A lack of some rare minerals can hinder technological ...

As ESA's Hera mission for planetary defense departed its homeworld, it looked back to Earth to show the moon orbiting around ...