ESA has launched the first planetary defense Hera spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 to investigate NASA-deflected Dimorphos ...

Satellite history is littered with "firsts." Many early space launches constituted key moments in the Cold War space race and ...

ESA's first planetary defence spacecraft has departed planet Earth. The Hera mission is headed to a unique target among the ...

Developed as part of ESA’s Space Safety programme and sharing technological heritage with the Agency’s Rosetta comet hunter, Hera lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

Humanity has already landed a bot on a comet - the ESA's Rosetta probe reached 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014 before its Philae lander touched down. We're quite good at this visiting tiny distant ...

Rosetta, the first comet orbiter, shares final moments before crashing The Rosetta spacecraft ended its historic, 12-year cruise through the cosmos on Friday after two years of orbit around Comet ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft has embarked on a groundbreaking mission to the binary asteroid system, Didymos, to enhance planetary defense techniques. This mission follows NASA's successful DART mission ...

Hera mission, which is traveling to asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos as a follow-up to NASA’s Double Asteroid ...

And it very nearly did not happen. That's the story I want to tell here.

The European probe Hera, designed to study the geophysical properties of the asteroid Dimorphos, whose trajectory was altered ...

Space exploration has always been fascinating for its mysteries, making people look beyond the planet and uncover the hidden ...

A satellite operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for space weather tracking has been fitted ...