Despite a brief panic, asteroid 2024 YR4 isn't likely to hit us anytime soon, but we can still study the asteroid up close to ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately smashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken ...

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

Images from the Hera mission show the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...

Technology designed in Dublin will assist a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft called Hera as it navigates a close fly-by ...

Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

If we wanted to perform a repeat of NASA's DART mission, which successfully deflected a small asteroid, we could test that with 2024 YR4. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ...