Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...

The European Space Agency is preparing to launch its first planetary defense mission:: File:: 'Hera' will assess a small moon ...

Any time you see a headline about an asteroid heading towards the planet, you can relax. Big and small asteroids fly by Earth ...

ESA’s Hera mission will study a rock called Dimorphos, which was blasted by NASA, to work out how successful that approach ...

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An asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as ...

Scientists wrote about the mini-moon and its anticipated orbit around Earth in a study published earlier this month in the non-peer-reviewed journal AAS Research Notes. The small asteroid was ...

The moon will soon have a companion in Earth's orbit for a limited time. An Arjuna asteroid will become a "mini-moon" event for nearly two months starting Sept. 29, according to a study published ...

The latest asteroid comes a year after NASA said another asteroid — this one the size of the Empire State Building — could hit Earth in less than 200 years.

Related: Asteroid the Size of a Football Stadium Just Whizzed Past Earth — and It's Coming Back in 2032 "The ... the Empire State Building — could hit Earth in less than 200 years.

Near-Earth asteroid, computer artwork. A 510-foot asteroid will pass by Earth on Wednesday, coming within 2 million miles of the planet—around eight times further than the moon—and traveling ...