The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos on Oct. 7, meant to follow up on NASA's ...
The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific ...
ESA's Hera spacecraft captured farewell views of Earth and the moon as it sails away into space to investigate the asteroid ...
An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...
Ice on ancient asteroids like Ryugu may have been crucial in kickstarting life on Earth. Researchers from Imperial and ...
"An object larger than about 150 meters that can approach the Earth to within this distance is termed a potentially hazardous ...
DART carried a CubeSat, LICIACube, from the Italian Space Agency, which provided the first fleeting glimpse of the collision aftermath. Very important data that will be expanded by the arrival of Hera ...
A bus-sized asteroid is set to pass Earth on 19 October. Named 2024 TY21, the asteroid is around 40 feet wide. It will pass at a safe distance of 840,000 miles. NASA assures that there is no threat to ...
NASA has issued an alert that an asteroid, TP17, is scheduled to skirt by Earth today at a distance of 2.8 million miles.
A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed ...
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.
Credit: ESA-Science Office The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid. "Farewell, Earth!" the European Space Agency posted online. "Last week, after we successfully ...