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

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

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

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

YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance of hitting the moon instead.

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

Although the danger to Earth has reduced, there is now a new concern—whether the asteroid will collide with the Moon. Even though the threat remains relatively low, it is still a serious ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, the European ...

A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken stunning bonus images of Mars and its moon Deimos en route to its final ...

The moon, however, may not be in the clear ... The passing of the 1% threshold and the size is what caught their attention. This asteroid has the opportunity to pass close to the Earth in ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has grabbed headlines lately ... when it whizzed past Earth at about twice the Moon’s distance. Observations allowed its size to be estimated at 40 to 90 m (130 to 295 ft ...

Deimos is about 15,000 miles from Mars. Scientists have previously speculated that it may actually be a piece of asteroid, not a moon. Hera got as close as 1,000 kilometers, or about 620 miles ...