Good news for those concerned about reports of a potential asteroid impact in 2032: NASA has dramatically lowered the ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

An asteroid scorched through the atmosphere in 2013 and hit Earth, but boffins knew nothing about it because they couldn't ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

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

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

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

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