The European Space Agency's Hera will travel to the scene of the crash and investigate whether the asteroid has a new crater or new shape and whether it has begun to tumble.

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 ...

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 ...

What happens when humanity flies a probe into an asteroid? Two years after such an impact, the "Hera" mission is supposed to ...

NASA's Europa Clipper is targeting Oct. 10, 2024, for the launch of the first mission to conduct a detailed science investigation of Jupiter's moon Europa. Scientists predict Europa has a salty ocean ...

The Hera spacecraft, expected to take flight Monday morning, is part of a broader effort to bolster humanity’s planetary defense readiness.

The probe, an ESA project, will study the consequences of a deliberate impact by a NASA spacecraft against an asteroid in ...

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 Hera probe successfully launched Monday on a mission to inspect the damage done by a NASA spacecraft that smashed ...

SpaceX is set to launch the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft aboard its Falcon 9 rocket on Monday. The FAA cleared ...