A European spacecraft is on its way to get an up-close look at an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed its own vehicle ...
A follow-up mission to DART, Hera will travel to a binary asteroid to observe the aftermath of NASA's wildly successful ...
The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by ...
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 launched Monday on a mission to inspect the damage done by a NASA spacecraft when it smashed into an ...
Europe's Hera probe successfully launched Monday on a mission to inspect the damage done by a NASA spacecraft that smashed into an asteroid during the first test of Earth's planetary ...
Despite an initially dismal forecast, SpaceX got a break in the weather to send Europe's Hera asteroid probe on its way.
The Hera spacecraft, expected to take flight Monday morning, is part of a broader effort to bolster humanity’s planetary defense readiness.
Hera will fly back to the same binary asteroid system tasked to perform a post-impact survey of the DART target, the smaller Dimorphos asteroid that orbits the larger Didymos. “Hera will turn the ...