The European Space Agency's Hera mission is on its way toward Mars, where it will get a gravity assist before going on to its asteroid target.

ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission captured imagery of Earth and the moon shrinking as the spacecraft was en route to the asteroid Dimorphos.

The Ukrainian cargo airline Antonov Airlines, in partnership with Ceva Logistics, has transported a 40-tonne shipment including a container carrying a satellite and additional equipment from ...

Stellar Stories Hera spacecraft launched The European Space Agency's Hxera spacecraft launched on October 7, initiating an ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at our planet ...

DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, proved to be an unqualified success when it slammed into the 560-foot-wide (170 meters) asteroid Dimorphos, altering its orbit around the larger space rock ...

Didymos, Dimorphos and Hera Didymos and Dimorphos are a near-Earth binary asteroid system. Here, Didymos is the primary asteroid, which is orbited by the smaller moonlet Dimorphos. Didymos measures ...

Now, let’s talk about an impressive achievement: the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. Launched on November 23, 2021, DART set out to show off a technique called kinetic impact. DART ...

Now, though, an international team of experts has identified the origin of more than 90 percent of all known meteorites, demonstrating that a staggering 70 percent came from just three asteroid ...