ESA's Hera spacecraft captured farewell views of Earth and the moon as it sails away into space to investigate the asteroid ...

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Leaders of major space agencies stated grand plans for the near future at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan, ...

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

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

The spherical shell known as the Oort Cloud is, for all practical purposes, invisible. Its constituent particles are spread so thinly, and so far from the light of any star, including the Sun, that ...

Learn about NASA's proactive measures to protect Earth from potentially hazardous asteroids, including the DART mission and ...

The ground shook and a deafening engine roar echoed throughout Kennedy Space Center. Launching at 12:06 p.m. EDT Monday, the ...

Around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth, wiping out an estimated 75% of all animal species, including ...

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications tech demo has completed several key milestones, culminating in sending a signal to ...

A new opportunity for the future of space exploration and industry has emerged: asteroid mining. While astronomers recently ...

NASA LANL NEWS RELEASEIn 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth ...