The Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX, the company founded by Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award winner Elon Musk, takes off from ...

What happens when humanity flies a probe into an asteroid? Two years after such an impact, the "Hera" mission is supposed to ...

The probe, an ESA project, will study the consequences of a deliberate impact by a NASA spacecraft against an asteroid in ...

NASA administrators chose MSU alum Brady Doepke (Class of 1996) to be involved in the ceremonial raising of the mission flag ...

The mission is heading out into space to study the impact of NASA's successful high-speed collision with an asteroid in 2022.

The Hera spacecraft, expected to take flight Monday morning, is part of a broader effort to bolster humanity’s planetary defense readiness.

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Europe's Hera probe successfully launched Monday on a mission to inspect the damage done by a NASA spacecraft that smashed into an asteroid during the first test of Earth's planetary ...

A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed ...

Despite an initially dismal forecast, SpaceX got a break in the weather to send Europe's Hera asteroid probe on its way.

SpaceX returned to flight with its Falcon 9 rocket Monday sending up the Hera probe for the European Space Agency, but have ...

SpaceX is set to launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the European Space Agency's Hera mission on Monday, October 7. Liftoff is ...