The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at our planet ...

ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...

The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon, set ...

The European Space Agency just launched the Hera follow-up mission to see what’s shaking with the binary asteroid system. Hera has a long journey ahead, but it took a moment to look back and ...

This artist's impression shows the binary asteroid 288P, located in the main asteroid belt between the planets Mars and Jupiter. The object is unique as it is a binary asteroid which also behaves ...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission is on its way toward Mars, where it will get a gravity assist before going on to its asteroid target.

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 ...

A second deep space manoeuvre in February 2026 will line Hera up for arrival at the Didymos binary asteroid system. In October 2026 the spacecraft will enter the vicinity of the asteroid system in ...

Dimorphos is a small moon 160m-wide that orbits an asteroid close to Earth called Didymos in something called a binary asteroid system. In 2022 Nasa said it successfully changed Dimorphos’s ...

Two European cubesats have communicated that they are a-ok as they hurtle toward a binary asteroid system to check out the damage inflicted by NASA's DART impactor in 2022. DART, the Double ...

Didymos and Dimorphos are a near-Earth binary asteroid system. Here, Didymos is the primary asteroid, which is orbited by the smaller moonlet Dimorphos. Didymos measures approximately 800 metres in ...