The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific ...

The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.

As part of an international planetary defense effort, Hera is set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape ...

The Hera mission will investigate the result of NASA’s asteroid redirection test, in which the U.S. agency rammed a ...

A new space mission could potentially change the course of asteroids, significantly reducing the threat they pose to Earth.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.

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

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 ...

Hera launched Oct. 7 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, on a mission to study the asteroid that NASA's DART spacecraft smashed ...

ESA will shortly be launching the Hera mission to investigate asteroid defense. The probe will investigate the effects of the ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft designed to assess NASA's experiment to deflect an asteroid has launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. At 14:52 GMT, the robotic probe lifted off atop a ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Monday, Oct. 7, at Cape Canaveral, Fla., ...