ESA has launched the first planetary defense Hera spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 to investigate NASA-deflected Dimorphos ...

SpaceX launched ESA's Hera spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket to study the impact of NASA's 2022 DART mission on asteroid ...

Two years after a NASA spacecraft slammed ... in orbit was observed from Earth, and Hera’s job now is to gather more data about Dimorphos so that scientists can better understand how future ...

A unique asteroid mission is underway.The European Space Agency's Hera mission launched today (Oct. 7) at 10:52 a.m. EDT ...

The Hera spacecraft, which took flight late Monday morning, is part of a broader effort to bolster humanity’s planetary defense readiness.

Collaborating with the Hera team are 12 NASA scientists ready to review and compare data. ESA and NASA describe the Hera ...

Europe’s first planetary defense mission — a follow-up to NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test — will launch as early as ...

SpaceX and the European Space Agency will launch a mission on Monday to an asteroid's moon. NASA tried to knock off its path ...

Europe's Hera asteroid probe blasted off from Florida on a SpaceX rocket on Monday, beginning a two-year voyage to revisit an ...

Europe's Hera probe ... damage a NASA spacecraft made when it smashed into an asteroid during the first test of Earth's planetary defenses. In a scene that sounds straight out of science fiction ...

Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...

NASA’s DART mission slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, and the European Space Agency is sending the Hera mission to investigate the collision’s aftermath ...