A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission captured imagery of Earth and the moon shrinking as the spacecraft was en route to the asteroid Dimorphos.

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

As ESA's Hera mission for planetary defense departed its homeworld, it looked back to Earth to show the moon orbiting around ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the ...

The worst sci-fi movie of all time, according to science, is Roland Emmerich's 'Moonfall'. Neil Degrasse Tyson now thinks it has surpassed 'Armageddon'.

Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...

Once feared to pose a threat to Earth, asteroid Apophis is now a subject of immense scientific ... (5.2 million miles), which ...