The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon, set ...

The license covers the Odin mission, which will launch in early 2025 on board the next Intuitive Machines moon launch.

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

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.

Earth’s newly captured mini-moon 2024 PT5 will depart in November, highlighting the fascination with transient asteroids.

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

Asteroid 2024 CY1 flew about 75,500 miles (121,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock is about 16 feet (8 m) wide. Credit: ...

"It's remarkable to think that the samples Apollo 16 brought back more than half a century ago still have secrets to reveal ...

Brilliant Jupiter rises at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 1 and by twilight on Nov. 30. It can be found in the constellation Taurus at ...