ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...

The Hera asteroid probe has passed a critical milestone on its journey to study the site of the first asteroid deflection test. The European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft fired its three orbital ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera spacecraft successfully tested its autonomous surface feature tracking system during a high-speed flyby of Mars, marking a crucial milestone ahead of its ...

An asteroid which could be up to 220 feet wide will now miss Earth - but the chances of the space rock slamming into the moon ...

The European Space Agency released a thrilling time-lapse video showing the Hera spacecraft's flyby of Mars and its dainty moon Deimos.

Space.com: The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft is now en route to perform late next year a look-see of the asteroid Dimorphos and its orbiting moonlet Didymos. NASA's DART mission in 2022 ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter. The asteroid that once had a ...