NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission to visit Dimorphos, an asteroid that NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) ...

The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...

The Hera spacecraft, which took flight late Monday morning, is part of a broader effort to bolster humanity’s planetary defense readiness.

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

Hera will be beginning a two-year journey past Mars and out to the asteroid belt where it will help us understand how to ...

SpaceX will launch Europe's Hera spacecraft on Monday (Oct. 7) toward the asteroid Dimorphos for a post-impact evaluation, ...

ESA’s Hera mission will study a rock called Dimorphos, which was blasted by NASA, to work out how successful that approach ...

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...

A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed ...

New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the Atlantic Ocean have been published today by ...