Spacecraft watches lonely Earth and moon fade into the distance
The European Space Agency's Hera mission captured imagery of Earth and the moon shrinking as the spacecraft was en route to the asteroid Dimorphos.
Moon waves goodbye to Hera
As ESA's Hera mission for planetary defense departed its homeworld, it looked back to Earth to show the moon orbiting around ...
DART Asteroid Impact Aftermath Caught On Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...
Bam NASA's Dart Spacecraft Slams Into Moonlet In Asteroid System
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...
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Earth sure looks spooky in these 'hyperspectral' images from Europe's Hera asteroid probe
The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at our planet ...
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Across the Universe
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, ...
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Antonov Airlines transports ESA's ‘Hera’ spacecraft to the US
The Ukrainian cargo airline Antonov Airlines, in partnership with Ceva Logistics, has transported a 40-tonne shipment including a container carrying a satellite and additional equipment from ...
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SwRI’s Dr. James Walker receives Distinguished Scientist Award from Hypervelocity Impact Society
The mission deliberately crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos, successfully altering its trajectory. This follows ...
Spooky Spectral Views of Earth Captured by Hera’s HyperScout From Deep Space
In celebration of Halloween, Hera’s HyperScout H instrument captures Earth in an eerie, spectral glow, showcasing our planet ...
Spot a 'lonely' Earth and Moon in vast expanse of space captured by asteroid probe
Do you want to know how lonely our planet actually is? Just check out the latest images taken by the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft. As it flew towards an asteroid, the probe captured photos ...
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China plans to crash a spacecraft into a distant asteroid
In 2022 its space agency, NASA, collided a semi-autonomous spacecraft (capable of self-steering as well as being remotely ...
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NICK STROBEL: Pleiades' Seven Sisters might be oldest story ever told
As the temperatures drop and nights lengthen, we're now able to see the beautiful Pleiades star cluster rising in the east in ...