DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

Hera will be humankind’s first probe to rendezvous with a binary asteroid system and Europe’s flagship planetary defender.” ...

The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at our planet ...

The launch of another important mission, NASA's Europa Clipper, is on hold due to Hurricane Milton. Two years ago, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a small asteroid millions of miles from Earth to test ...

It had been over a week since the Space Coast had seen a Falcon 9 rocket lift off. Weather did not look like it would ...

Liftoff of the ESA/NASA Hera mission is set for Monday, sending a spacecraft on a two year journey to a familiar asteroid ...

The data from the reboost, scheduled for Nov. 8, will help inform design for a larger Dragon to deorbit the ISS.

Dodging stormy weather ahead of Hurricane Milton, SpaceX launched the European Space Agency's $398 million Hera probe Monday on a follow-up flight to find out precisely how a moonlet orbiting a small ...

Hera will be humankind's first probe to rendezvous with a binary asteroid system and Europe's flagship planetary defender." SpaceX has yet to confirm the launch attempt. "Safety will drive the ...

SpaceX’s Dragon will reboost the ISS for the first time on Nov. 8, providing essential data for its future role in deorbiting the space station.

Now the European Space Agency, together with the NASA and SpaceX, is sending another spacecraft back to conduct more tests on the nudged asteroid. In 2021, the NASA DART (Double Asteroid ...