The small, lumpy moon Deimos pictured in front of Mars in an image taken by Europe's HERA probe
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Deimos is the smaller and more mysterious of Mars' two moons
The asteroid Dimorphos, pictured by the DART spacecraft seconds before the two collided in 2022
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red …
In 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) deliberately smashed a spacecraft into the 160-metre-wide Dimorphos asteroid, successf…
This asteroid now has just a 0.001 percent chance of hitting Earth a few days before Christmas in 2032
The asteroid discovered in December is estimated to be 40-90 metres wide -- roughly half the size of Dimorphos
One idea based on a tractor involves using a spacecraft's gravitational pull to tug an asteroid off course
Using nuclear weapons is considered a last-ditch plan for huge asteroids like the one that killed off the dinosaurs
There is a very small chance that an asteroid capable of taking out an entire city could strike Earth in less than eight years. But even if th…