SpaceX returned to flight with its Falcon 9 rocket on Monday, sending up the Hera probe for the European Space Agency on its ...

Hera will attempt to go into orbit around the rocky pair, with the flyby distances gradually dropping from 18 miles all the ...

The highly anticipated surveillance mission of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has launched on a journey to investigate the scene.

Follow Europe Hera asteroid probe on its two-year voyage to study the Dimorphos asteroid after being bashed off course by ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft has embarked on a groundbreaking mission to the binary asteroid system, Didymos, to enhance planetary defense techniques. This mission follows NASA's successful DART mission ...

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, ...

SpaceX will launch Europe's Hera spacecraft on Monday (Oct. 7) toward the asteroid Dimorphos for a post-impact evaluation, ...

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

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

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