A new spacecraft blasted off to help protect the Earth from asteroids on Monday. Oct. 7 to revisit the scene of a cosmic ...

SpaceX launched ESA's Hera spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket to study the impact of NASA's 2022 DART mission on asteroid ...

The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft is on its way to do follow-up observations of Dimorphos, two years after an ...

SpaceX launched the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft on Monday to see if a test NASA performed in 2022 to knock the ...

The car-sized probe is part of a mission to better understand the ‘kinetic impact’ technique of asteroid deflection.

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

The probe, an ESA project, will study the consequences of a deliberate impact by a NASA spacecraft against an asteroid in ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft has embarked on a groundbreaking mission to the binary asteroid system, Didymos, to enhance planetary defense techniques. This mission follows NASA's successful DART mission ...

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

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

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.

ESA's Hera spacecraft designed to assess NASA's experiment to deflect an asteroid has launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. At 14:52 GMT, the robotic probe lifted off atop a ...