A SpaceX rocket that launched a planetary defense mission on Monday captured a breathtaking view of Earth shortly after reaching orbit.

Scientists are eager to examine the impact’s aftermath up close to know exactly how effective Dart was and what changes might ...

Helga and Zohar, designed to represent human female bodies, were in the Orion capsule as stand-ins for astronauts, with built ...

A NASA spacecraft knocked into an asteroid two years ago to test planetary defense. Now, a new mission will inspect the ...

Hera will survey the asteroid deflected by NASA's DART spacecraft, the results of which could lay the foundation of Earth's ...

Hera Time The Hera mission is officially underway. As CNN reports, the European Space Agency (ESA) just launched its ...

SpaceX is set to launch the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft aboard its Falcon 9 rocket on Monday. The FAA cleared ...

On its way the pair of near-Earth asteroids, Hera will swing by Mars in 2025 to help propel the spacecraft forward to its ...

NASA’s DART spacecraft is due to collide with the smaller body of the Didymos binary asteroid system in October 2022. ESA’s Hera mission will survey ‘Didymoon’ post-impact and assess how its orbit has ...

13) in Berlin. Hera will assess the size and depth of the crater on Dimorphos created by NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft, and determine whether the impact did indeed ...

Washington — A group of Black women central to NASA's success during the space race and known as the "Hidden Figures" were honored Wednesday in a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Capitol Hill.

The five-year study was conducted by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Over two decades since NASA researchers first saw images of mysterious, spider-like formations across the southern hemisphere ...