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

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 ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, which successfully landed on the Moon on March 2, 2025, has made strides in exploring the Moon's thermal properties. The lander’s LISTER payload, a drill ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

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

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

Researchers say they have found "unequivocal evidence" that a meteorite smashed into Earth 3.47 billion years ago, ...

“You all stuck the landing. We’re on the moon,” Firefly’s Will Coogan, chief engineer for the lander, reported. Read More: Do ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

Odin, named for the father of Thor in Norse mythology, will be one of the first spacecraft developed by a private sector company to travel to deep space or beyond the moon.

Odds of the rock hitting the Earth stand at 1-in-37,000, but the Moon may not be so lucky. The chance of the asteroid smashing into the Moon has risen to 1-in-55, and is expected to keep going up.