To study DART’s effectiveness, Hera is headed for Didymos to see whether DART is viable. The ESA says Hera is about the size of a car. It launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral ...

The hyperspectral camera ASPECT, developed by VTT, is on board the European Space Agency’s (ESA) space mission, Hera, to test ...

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 ...

U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian colleague Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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