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

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

004% when it passes by on Dec. 22, 2032. In fact, YR4 now has a higher chance of crashing into the moon that year, with odds ...

The asteroid still has a 1.7% chance of crashing into the moon on Dec. 22, 2032. The asteroid was first discovered in late 2024 and reported when it surpassed the 1% impact probability threshold ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

If the asteroid collided with the Moon, Earth would be largely unaffected ... Nasa has repeatedly changed estimates on whether the asteroid will crash into Earth. Astronomers first noticed ...

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

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

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

The world wasn’t in need of another reason to panic, but asteroid 2024 YR4 gave them one ... An object like YR4 probably passes as close to us as the Moon is every month, he notes; the meteor ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking Earth eight years from now.

In fact, YR4 now has a higher chance of crashing into the moon that year, with odds standing at 1.7%, according to NASA. "There is no significant potential for this asteroid to impact our planet ...