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

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency Cooper Kupp Shared His Blunt Conversation With Sean ...

An asteroid discovered late last year is continuing to stir public interest as its odds of striking planet Earth less than eight years from now continue to increase. Two weeks ago, when Ars first ...

If the risk increases, this might mean a a kinetic impactor mission, like the extremely successful NASA DART mission which altered the orbit of Dimorphos, the small moon of asteroid Didymos ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry the probe out of Earth’s gravity before it sets a course for asteroid 65803 Didymos. The asteroid is a binary asteroid which means it has a satellite orbiting ...