The Hera mission will investigate the result of NASA’s asteroid redirection test, in which the U.S. agency rammed a ...

The news was a relief for Fitzsimmons and the entire Hera team.

The Hera planetary defense mission, launched successfully aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, aims to assess the feasibility of ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket snapped a pretty special in-space selfie on Monday (Oct. 7). The shot, captured during the launch of ...

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

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

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

A Falcon 9 successfully launched a European asteroid mission Oct. 7 in a partial return to flight for the rocket.

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

A European spacecraft is on its way to get an up-close look at an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed its own vehicle ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched a €360m mission to perform a close-up “crash-scene” investigation of the 150 m-diameter asteroid Dimorphos, which was purposely hit by a NASA probe in 2022 ...

SpaceX has confirmed, and the Space Force and the Federal Aviation Administration state that the European Space Agency's Hera ...