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

Hera will survey the asteroid deflected by NASA's DART spacecraft, the results of which could lay the foundation of Earth's ...

Scientists are eager to examine the impact’s aftermath up close to know exactly how effective Dart was and what changes might ...

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

Scientists have discovered new evidence that it wasn't just one asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

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

How could we feed astronauts on lengthy space missions? These researchers have a quirky idea.

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

Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the Chicxulub asteroid impact, but that was a wholly different story for the ...

European spacecraft launches to a harmless asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed into in previous save-the-Earth test.

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

Despite an initially dismal forecast, SpaceX got a break in the weather to send Europe's Hera asteroid probe on its way.