SpaceX launches Europe’s Hera asteroid mission ahead of Hurricane Milton
The launch of another important mission, NASA's Europa Clipper, is on hold due to Hurricane Milton. Two years ago, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a small asteroid millions of miles from Earth to test a technique that could one day prove useful to deflect an object off a collision course with Earth.
The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft is on its way to do follow-up observations of Dimorphos, two years after an ...
The news was a relief for Fitzsimmons and the entire Hera team.
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A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed ...
A follow-up mission to DART, Hera will travel to a binary asteroid to observe the aftermath of NASA's wildly successful ...
Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: There aren't as many as we thought.
A spacecraft is due to launch from Florida destined for an asteroid that US space agency Nasa knocked off course in 2022. It ...
The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ...
Near-Earth asteroids are closely monitored due to their implications for planetary defense. The team utilized ground-based ...
Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the Chicxulub asteroid impact, but that was a wholly different story for the ...
The space rock, named 2016 JG38, after the year it was discovered, is classed by the US space agency as a "Near Earth Object" ...
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