The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

The first-ever private asteroid mission appears to be over, just a week or so after it left the ground. "The chance of talking with Odin is minimal, as at this point, the accuracy of its position is ...

NASA’s Psyche mission to investigate a metal-rich asteroid captured rare glimpses of Mars during a recent flyby.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera mission is officially underway ...

A European spacecraft is heading to study an asteroid after NASA purposely knocked it off its course more than two years ago. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera spacecraft lifted off on a SpaceX ...

The asteroid was discovered on May 10 by astronomers with the Mount Lemmon Survey, an astronomical project based in Arizona’s ...

The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is on its way to check out the damage NASA’s DART mission did to an asteroid called Dimorphos. Hera launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on ...

ESA's planned Ramses mission would arrive at the asteroid Apophis two months before the asteroid's April 2029 close flyby of Earth. Credit: ESA WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency and Japan ...

The Hera spacecraft, which took flight late Monday morning, is part of a broader effort to bolster humanity’s planetary defense readiness. By Katrina Miller In humanity’s latest bid to avoid going the ...

NASA's Lucy mission is key to helping us understand the early history of our solar system as it studies asteroids like the Donaldjohanson. Named after the paleoanthropologist who co-discovered the ...

AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new frontier for precious metals. Reading time 7 minutes California startup AstroForge ...