As NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space agency is gearing up for another ...

A NASA spacecraft far from Earth has made an unexpected discovery, after turning its instruments towards a dark patch of sky at the galactic poles for over 200 hours. Studying the background light ...

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

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 ...

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about ...

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

Space probe Hera passed Mars while on its way to the Didymos asteroid system as part of planetary defence mission.

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...