In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft violently smashed into a tiny asteroid as a test of planetary defense. Now, a new probe ...
ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...
NASA's DART mission made a cosmic mess four years ago — and now a new spacecraft is ready to scout out exactly what the first ...
Four years after a NASA probe struck the asteroid moon Dimorphos in the first planetary defense crash test, Europe’s Hera ...
An artist’s rendering of the Hera spacecraft along with CubeSats Milani and Juventas around the asteroid, Dimorphous. Graphic: ESA The European Space Agency and SpaceX managed to find good enough ...
In one month, the European Space Agency’s Hera mission will make history. Moving at 12 kilometers per second relative to Earth, the mission is about to rendezvous with the binary Dimorphos-Didymos ...