The European Space Agency’s Hera mission lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 10:52 a.m. ET on Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch marks the first Falcon 9 ...
An artist's conception of the European Space Agency's Hera craft traveling through the solar system. Credit: ESA-Science Office The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid.
A European spacecraft is heading to study an asteroid after NASA purposely knocked it off its course more than two years ago. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera spacecraft lifted off on a ...
A European spacecraft and two shoebox-size satellites have launched to survey the aftermath from NASA’s DART mission, which intentionally slammed into an asteroid named Dimorphos and altered its orbit ...