If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. We’ve seen plenty of photos taken from the surface of places other than Earth. There ...

That's thanks to the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2, which arrived at the asteroid earlier this summer and last month plopped two small rovers on the space rock's surface.

The images, sent down from the surface of the asteroid Ryugu, show the rock in amazing and eerie detail. They were sent back over a distance of around 180 million miles.

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope watched as a NASA spacecraft intentionally slammed into an asteroid on Monday. Their images of the impact were shared on Thursday.

The first images, taken by a camera aboard DART, show the double asteroid system of Didymos – about 2,500 feet (780 meters) in diameter – being orbited by the smaller asteroid Dimorphos that ...

Uploaded by the DailyMail, this video is said to show the moment an asteroid hits the surface of the Moon. ... NASA has confirmed there’s a very real chance of this happening on December 22, 2032.

A NASA spacecraft orbiting the huge asteroid Vesta has snapped amazing new photos of the colossal space rock, images that reveal strange features never-before-seen on an asteroid, scientists say.

A new image shows the aftermath of NASA's asteroid defense test last month against an Armageddon-style end-of-the-world scenario. The image, which was captured by the Southern Astrophysical ...

You can zoom in on photos posted to the NASA website to see more detail.. OSIRIS-REx's van-sized craft visited Bennu, scraped and collected material from the asteroid’s surface and sealed it ...

That means the camera will be able to take some stunning images of Ryugu's rubble-covered surface. JAXA posted similar near real-time views of the asteroid when Hayabusa2 deployed its first two ...