The automobile-sized Hera will carry out the first detailed survey of a 'binary' – or double-body – asteroid, 65803 Didymos, ...
A NASA spacecraft knocked into an asteroid two years ago to test planetary defense. Now, a new mission will inspect the ...
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.
Scientists are eager to examine the impact’s aftermath up close to know exactly how effective Dart was and what changes might ...
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 ...
SpaceX is set to launch the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft aboard its Falcon 9 rocket on Monday. The FAA cleared ...
ESA has launched the first planetary defense Hera spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 to investigate NASA-deflected Dimorphos ...
The booster had previously flown both the Crew-1 and Crew-2 human spaceflight missions. The ESA Hera mission is a followup to NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission that impacted an ...
On its way the pair of near-Earth asteroids, Hera will swing by Mars in 2025 to help propel the spacecraft forward to its ...
it launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, under which a spacecraft was made to collide with asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in order to deflect its course. The European Space Agency's Hera ...