The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its ...

Apophis is a peanut-shaped space rock spanning 1,230-foot (375 meters) across comparable to that of the Eiffel Tower. At this ...

The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with ...

For the next two months, Earth will have a cosmic guest. A so-called “mini moon” will join our actual moon in circling the ...

NASA plans to blast “planet killer” asteroids with a 1,000-strong army of spacecraft – or even a nuke. The space agency ...

The European Space Agency signed a contract with OHB to begin work on an asteroid mission, but a decision on full funding for the mission is still more than a year away.

ESA's Hera spacecraft designed to assess NASA's experiment to deflect an asteroid has launched from Cape Canaveral Space ...

The Hera spacecraft, which took flight late Monday morning, is part of a broader effort to bolster humanity’s planetary defense readiness.

ESA's first planetary defence spacecraft has departed planet Earth. The Hera mission is headed to a unique target among the ...

Hera mission, which is traveling to asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos as a follow-up to NASA’s Double Asteroid ...

The findings from Hera will go hand-in-hand with the Esa’s Ramses mission in 2029 which will meet up with the asteroid 99942 Apophis and accompany ... and larger in size and come nearer than ...

To study DART’s effectiveness, Hera is headed for Didymos to see whether DART is viable. The ESA says Hera is about the size ...