Discover NASA's Hera mission and how it's vital for planetary defense against asteroids, ensuring Earth's safety from ...

Just a few smashups in the asteroid belt may account for 70 percent of Earth’s meteorites, limiting what’s known about our solar system’s history.

An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...

Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...

Although a potential ‘planet killer’ catastrophe is not on NASA's radar for at least next 100 years, it already has a layout ...

Our planet’s surface is littered with debris from the skies — and researchers have found that most come from only a few ...

Olympus Mons, Mars' immense shield volcano, towers 21 kilometers above its surface, dwarfing Earth's Mount Everest. Covering ...

As part of an international planetary defense effort, Hera is set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape ...

In September 2022, NASA’s DART mission did something that seemed only possible in science fiction or mythology: It moved a celestial body. Asteroid Dimorphos, the moon of the much larger asteroid ...

Elon Musk stands victorious in his ambitious Starship plans now that SpaceX caught the Super Heavy booster with giant ...

Gigantic Asteroid Impact Shifted the Axis of Solar ... Aug. 12, 2024 — Quakes and meteor impacts on Mars generate seismic waves that can help map the interior. A new study analyzed seismic ...