Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...

For over 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf. Now, they may ...

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...

Hollywood films would have you believe that the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of ...

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

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

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

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...