Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: There aren't as many as we thought.

A follow-up mission to DART, Hera will travel to a binary asteroid to observe the aftermath of NASA's wildly successful ...

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

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

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

The European Space Agency will probe a harmless asteroid Nasa hit in 2022 as part of a "planetary defence test".

Hera launched Oct. 7 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, on a mission to study the asteroid that NASA's DART spacecraft smashed ...

The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by ...

In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In ...

Europe's 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 mission and two satellites are ready to survey the aftermath of NASA’s DART spacecraft, ...

A spacecraft is due to launch from Florida destined for an asteroid that US space agency Nasa knocked off course in 2022. It ...