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

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission and two satellites are on their way to survey the aftermath of NASA’s DART spacecraft, which intentionally hit an asteroid in 2022.

The European Space Agency's Hera mission will set off from Cape Canaveral on 7 October on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It will ...

In humanity’s latest bid to avoid going the way of the dinosaurs, a European spacecraft soared away from the coast of Florida ...

Following in the footsteps of DART, the European Space Agency’s Hera Mission will soon launch from Cape Canaveral aboard a ...

What happens when humanity flies a probe into an asteroid? Two years after such an impact, the "Hera" mission is supposed to ...

The rocket deployed the Hera spacecraft for the European Space Agency about 76 minutes later ... The spacecraft, he said, was in contact with controllers, who were checking out its systems. That will ...

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

The NASA spacecraft hit the roughly 160 meters in diameter Dimorphos, which orbits a larger asteroid — the 780 meter Didymos.

ESA’s Hera mission will study a rock called Dimorphos, which was blasted by NASA, to work out how successful that approach ...