The news was a relief for Fitzsimmons and the entire Hera team.
SpaceX and the European Space Agency will launch a mission on Monday to an asteroid's moon. NASA tried to knock off its path ...
The Hera mission will investigate the result of NASA’s asteroid redirection test, in which the U.S. agency rammed a ...
The car-sized probe is part of a mission to better understand the ‘kinetic impact’ technique of asteroid deflection.
The European Space Agency's Hera will travel to the scene of the crash and investigate whether the asteroid has a new crater or new shape and whether it has begun to tumble.
A NASA spacecraft knocked into an asteroid two years ago to test planetary defense. Now, a new mission will inspect the ...
On its way the pair of near-Earth asteroids, Hera will swing by Mars in 2025 to help propel the spacecraft forward to its ...