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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.

SpaceX launched the European Space Agency's Hera mission on Monday to provide scientists with tools to prevent catastrophic ...

The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface.

Hera will be beginning a two-year journey past Mars and out to the asteroid belt where it will help us understand how to ...

The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft is on its way to do follow-up observations of Dimorphos, two years after an ...

The news was a relief for Fitzsimmons and the entire Hera team.

ESA's Hera spacecraft has embarked on a groundbreaking mission to the binary asteroid system, Didymos, to enhance planetary defense techniques. This mission follows NASA's successful DART mission ...