Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

While making the deliveries, the Blue Ghost lander experienced one lunar day. During the course of that day, it captured ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims look at how close we really are extracting rare minerals ...

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 ...

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

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

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a ...

Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...