A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed ...

A European spacecraft is on its way to get an up-close look at an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed its own vehicle ...

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

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

SpaceX launched ESA's Hera spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket to study the impact of NASA's 2022 DART mission on asteroid ...

Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when it smashed into an asteroid during the first test of Earth's planetary ...

The Starliner spacecraft is scheduled to return to Earth ... New images released from NASA’s mission to intentionally collide with an asteroid in 2022 have revealed information on the origins ...

Weeks before Europa Clipper was to be shipped for launch, scientists discovered a potentially fatal flaw that might endanger the spacecraft’s ability to study an ocean moon of Jupiter.

NASA's next flagship spacecraft, the Europa Clipper, meets its massive SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket nose cone. Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it! Take a look at ...

Related: The 10 weirdest moons in the solar system The $5 billion Europa Clipper spacecraft is scheduled to blast off on Oct. 10, 2024, from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...

Gigantic Asteroid Impact Shifted the Axis of Solar System's Biggest Moon Sep. 3, 2024 — Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a researcher realized that the ...