Hera will retrace history's first asteroid-deflection test and piece together the crash from every angle. By Rahul Rao. Published Mar 14, 2023 6:00 AM EDT.

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid. It's the second part of a planetary defense test. IE 11 is not supported.

The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by NASA two years ago in a dress rehearsal for the day a killer space rock ...

The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos on Oct. 7, meant to follow up on NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission. After waking up its ...

The Hera spacecraft launched Oct. 7 to study a binary asteroid system up close. By 2026, it should arrive at the crash site of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Mission, or DART.. The NASA ...

Despite this, the asteroid's change in orbit was observed from Earth, and Hera's job now is to gather more data about Dimorphos so that scientists can better understand how future impacts could be ...

In about one year from now, the European Space Agency will launch its Hera mission. Its destination is the asteroid Didymos, and it'll be the second human spacecraft to visit the 390-meter chunk ...

According to NASA, Hera is brining along two Asteroid Framing Cameras (AFCs), the Hyperscout-H spectral imager, a Thermal InfraRed Imager (TIRI), and the two CubeSats (known as Juvenitas and Milani).

Two European cubesats have communicated that they are a-ok as they hurtle toward a binary asteroid system to check out the damage inflicted by NASA's DART impactor in 2022. First, though, European ...

Space Hera mission set to revisit asteroid after NASA's redirection test. The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which had its orbit altered ...

Hera may also end its mission with a precarious touchdown, but on the larger Didymos. Neither asteroid poses any threat to Earth — before or after Dart showed up.