The Hera spacecraft, speeding on to an asteroid, took a look back at Earth's moon — and in a new animation, you can see our neighbor shrinking as Hera flies away. Hera's images of the Earth ...

A strange Earth shines in new imagery captured by a European asteroid mission. The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at ...

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Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to Earth in 2029, according to a new study. The asteroid, named after the ...

The asteroid burst into a fireball that lit the skies at 3:54 a.m. PT on October 22, 2024. Scientists estimated that the energy released by the asteroid upon impact with the atmosphere would be ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is buzzing with excitement as it tracks a 500-foot asteroid, set to make a ... NASA's meticulous monitoring keeps the public informed and ready for any cosmic ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission has beamed back its first images from space ...

This allowed Hera to capture the first images of Earth and the Moon from a distance of more than one million km!" SEE ALSO: We could nuke an incoming asteroid. Scientists just proved it.

Microscope image of one of the small fragments of asteroid 162173 Ryugu studied by scientists at the Advanced Photon Source. This fragment is roughly 400 microns in diameter, or about the width of ...