The European Space Agency's Hera will travel to the scene of the crash and investigate whether the asteroid has a new crater or new shape and whether it has begun to tumble.

Decades of abandoning rockets in orbit, and firing off anti-satellite missiles, are surrounding Earth with "time bombs" that ...

Despite an initially dismal forecast, SpaceX got a break in the weather to send Europe's Hera asteroid probe on its way.

This week is jam-packed with plenty to do in Canberra and the surrounding area. The highlights? You'll have to read our guide ...

The environments in space habitats and on the Earth are both closed-loop systems, only on vastly different scales.

Over the course of our planet’s long history, Earth’s climate has seen some dramatic shifts-and it will only continue to ...

You can see them in the Northern Hemisphere as early from nightfall on October 6, and they will last until October 10. Their ...

For most of human history, most of us had little choice about when we hastened to bed: we tended to hit the sack some time ...

I had this song that I’d written, and the line that struck me in light of the recent devastation was ‘I’ll come running,’ because there are a lot of people out there right now who are in their darkest ...

The terminator sweeps across the Moon, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS continues to wow, and Jupiter reaches a stationary point in ...

Recently, there has been some dispute over the approximate date that complex life will no longer be able to live on Earth. Astrophysicists have long understood that in roughly half a billion years, ...

On Sunday, September 29, our planet captured the tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon.