The main goal of the Hera mission is to study the aftermath of NASA 's Double Asteroid Redirect Mission (DART). Back in ...

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.

This week's science highlights include the Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to U.S. scientists for the discovery of microRNA, ...

A SpaceX rocket that launched a planetary defense mission on Monday captured a breathtaking view of Earth shortly after reaching orbit.

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

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

The Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX, the company founded by Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award winner Elon Musk, takes off from ...

Per-and poly fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are used in the aerospace, automotive, construction and electronic industries.

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

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

Atlanta Falcons newcomer Justin Simmons is a big fan of Jessie Bates, the other half of the Falcons' All-Pro safety tandem.

The Hera spacecraft, expected to take flight Monday morning, is part of a broader effort to bolster humanity’s planetary defense readiness.