The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket captured amazing images of Earth Monday (Oct. 7) during the launch of Europa's ...

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

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

The European probe Hera, designed to study the geophysical properties of the asteroid Dimorphos, whose trajectory was altered ...

"The Hera mission will provide valuable information for the next development stages of both planetary defence and asteroid ...

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.

Hera will be beginning a two-year journey past Mars and out to the asteroid belt where it will help us understand how to ...

SpaceX returned to flight with its Falcon 9 rocket on Monday, sending up the Hera probe for the European Space Agency on its ...

The ESA spacecraft embarked on a two-year journey to the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos on Monday.

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

"The more detail we can glean the better as it may be important for planning a future deflection mission should one be needed ...