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

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

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

Hera Time The Hera mission is officially underway. As CNN reports, the European Space Agency (ESA) just launched its ...

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

Hera will be humankind’s first probe to rendezvous with a binary asteroid system and Europe’s flagship planetary defender.” SpaceX and NASA had another major mission planned this week, but the threat ...

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

Europe's highly anticipated Hera mission to catalog the wreckage of the ... are set to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Oct. 7 at 10:52 a.m. EDT (1452 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

Europe's highly anticipated Hera mission to catalog the wreckage of the asteroid Dimorphos ... are set to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Oct. 7 at 10:52 a.m. EDT (1452 GMT) from Cape ...

On Tuesday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposed a set of fines that total $633,009 over what it says were two instances of SpaceX launching missions with unapproved changes in ...

SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission, which concluded with a successful splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on September 15, 2024, has gone down in history for multiple groundbreaking achievements.

Though the mission was funded and commanded by a billionaire ... to study the effects of radiation on their bodies, helping SpaceX prepare for future human missions to the moon and Mars.