Hera mission, part of an ambitious planetary defense initiative, has successfully received initial signals from its two ...

The craft will reach its destination — the asteroid 65803 Didymos and its small moonlet Dimorphos — in 2026. Along the way, it will fly by Mars to receive a gravity assist and examine the ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft as it would look in space. Dimorphos is a small moonlet that orbits the bigger asteroid Didymos. In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into Dimorphos to see if it could change ...

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission is the first to send a spacecraft and two CubeSats to an asteroid in deep space.

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 ...

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 ...

SpaceX launched ESA's Hera spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket to study the impact of NASA's 2022 DART mission on asteroid Dimorphos. The mission aims to gather data on asteroid deflection techniques ...

DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, proved to be an unqualified success when it slammed into the 560-foot-wide (170 meters) asteroid Dimorphos, altering its orbit around the larger space ...

Dimorphos is a moonlet of Didymos, which is defined as a near-Earth asteroid. Dart (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) was a proof-of-concept mission designed to use a spacecraft to nudge a ...

"On Thursday 10 October and Friday 11 October, Hera’s asteroid deck, which houses the spacecraft’s instruments, was pointed back towards our planet and three of its instruments captured their first ...

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The spacecraft Hera was launched on 7 October by the European Space Agency to return to the asteroid Dimorphos. That’s a little moon of another asteroid, ...