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

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.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...

The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon, set ...

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 ...

During this cubesat commissioning, we have not only confirmed the cubesat instruments and systems work as planned, but also validated the entire ground command infrastructure.' ...

Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid ...

Do you want to know how lonely our planet actually is? Just check out the latest images taken by the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft. As it flew towards an asteroid, the probe captured photos ...

Dimorphos orbits the asteroid Didymos as part of a binary asteroid system. Credit: ASI / NASA "By gathering close-up data about the Dimorphos asteroid, which was impacted by NASA’s DART ...

asteroid Dimorphos, altering its orbit around the larger space rock Didymos and proving for the first time that humans have the ability to nudge potentially hazardous asteroids out of the way.