A spacecraft blasted off Monday to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by ...

Limited access to Gaza since the Israel-Hamas war started makes it hard to analyze the destruction, but satellite data paints ...

Hera will attempt to go into orbit around the rocky pair, with the flyby distances gradually dropping from 18 miles all the ...

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

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, ...

A SpaceX rocket that launched a planetary defense mission on Monday captured a breathtaking view of Earth shortly after reaching orbit.

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

Torrential rains from Hurricane Helene swamped communities in the mountainous western part of the state. After Hurricane ...

Hera will survey the asteroid deflected by NASA's DART spacecraft, the results of which could lay the foundation of Earth's ...

Hera Time The Hera mission is officially underway. As CNN reports, the European Space Agency (ESA) just launched its ...

Scientists are eager to examine the impact’s aftermath up close to know exactly how effective Dart was and what changes might ...