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

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission and two satellites are on the way to survey the aftermath of NASA’s DART spacecraft, ...

The European Space Agency launched its HERA spacecraft to study an asteroid NASA crashed into two years ago. The mission aims ...

The car-sized probe is part of a mission to better understand the ‘kinetic impact’ technique of asteroid deflection.

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

The Government is in “exploratory discussions” with the UK Space Agency over possible future developments on the island, the ...

Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) spacecraft collided with Dimorphos in the first test of deflecting an asteroid ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched a €360m mission to perform a close-up “crash-scene” investigation of the 150 m-diameter asteroid Dimorphos, which was purposely hit by a NASA probe in 2022 ...

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

NASA’s DART mission successfully deflected the asteroid Dimorphos through kinetic impact in 2022, altering its trajectory.

A Belfast-based astronomer is to take part in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) first planetary-defence mission, to help ward ...