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

Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: There aren't as many as we thought.

In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In ...

Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the Chicxulub asteroid impact, but that was a wholly different story for the ...

A follow-up mission to DART, Hera will travel to a binary asteroid to observe the aftermath of NASA's wildly successful ...

Europe's Hera asteroid probe blasted off from Florida on a SpaceX rocket on Monday, beginning a two-year voyage to revisit an ...

The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ...

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will investigate an asteroid that NASA deliberately struck with another spacecraft ...

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

Despite an initially dismal forecast, SpaceX got a break in the weather to send Europe's Hera asteroid probe on its way.

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

A spacecraft is due to launch from Florida destined for an asteroid that US space agency Nasa knocked off course in 2022. It ...