Together, DART and Hera lay the foundations for future planetary protection missions. Focusing on asteroids that could pose ...

Otero and (18805) Kellyday. Though distant and faint, the early observations serve as both a successful instrument test and a demonstration of agile spacecraft operations that could prove useful for ...

On its way to Didymos and Dimorphos, Hera has found time to test its cameras in preparation for the big moment.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some ...

Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 ...

Japan plans to join a European Space Agency mission to observe an asteroid set for a close flyby of Earth in 2029, a source ...

Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a ...

Understanding the effect that this boulder debris has will be key to the European Space Agency’s Hera mission, which will arrive at the Didymos-Dimorphos system in 2026.

ESA/DLR/FU Berlin Back in 2003, the European Space Agency’s Mars Express mission launched, with its ultimate aim the search for surface water on Mars. And over the course of the mission, it has been ...

The European space agency (ESA) signed a deal worth 129 million euros ($154 million) on Tuesday to make a spacecraft for a joint project with NASA looking at how to deflect an asteroid heading for ...