In humanity’s latest bid to avoid going the way of the dinosaurs, a European spacecraft soared away from the coast of Florida ...

The mission is heading out into space to study the impact of NASA's successful high-speed collision with an asteroid in 2022.

Two years ago, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a small asteroid millions of miles from Earth to test a technique that could ...

ESA has launched the first planetary defense Hera spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 to investigate NASA-deflected Dimorphos ...

The Hera mission launched Monday from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40. It's destination - an asteroid system NASA altered ...

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

A European spacecraft is on its way to get an up-close look at an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed its own vehicle ...

Hera is currently scheduled to launch on Monday, Oct. 7, at 10:52 AM EDT (14:52 UTC) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at ...

SpaceX has confirmed, and the Space Force and the Federal Aviation Administration state that the European Space Agency's Hera ...

Europe's Hera probe launched Monday on a mission to inspect the damage done by a NASA spacecraft when it smashed into an ...

What happens when humanity flies a probe into an asteroid? Two years after such an impact, the "Hera" mission is supposed to ...

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will investigate an asteroid that NASA deliberately struck with another spacecraft ...