The asteroid Apophis, nicknamed the "God of Chaos," is set to pass by Earth on November 13th. While scientists assure it ...

The asteroid Apophis, nicknamed the "God of Chaos," is set for a near-Earth flyby on November 13, passing within 19,000 miles ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

“Our findings suggest that the risk of being hit by a large asteroid in the Taurid swarm is much lower than we believed, ...

This once-every-seven-thousand-years opportunity will teach us a lot about the behavior of asteroid surfaces that will be ...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission is on its way toward Mars, where it will get a gravity assist before going on to its asteroid target.

When Apophis was discovered in 2004, initial calculations indicated that it could approach Earth with a risk of collision.

ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to ...

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

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. Hera's images of the Earth (visible ...

The successor mission, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor), will be the first space telescope that will be ...