Despite an initially dismal forecast, SpaceX got a break in the weather to send Europe's Hera asteroid probe on its way.

Two years ago, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a small asteroid millions of miles from Earth to test a technique that could ...

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission and two satellites are ready to survey the aftermath of NASA’s DART spacecraft, ...

From rockets to satellites to space tourism, if you do business in space, SpaceX is coming to take your profits.

A NASA spacecraft knocked into an asteroid two years ago to test planetary defense. Now, a new mission will inspect the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched a €360m mission to perform a close-up “crash-scene” investigation of the 150 m-diameter asteroid Dimorphos, which was purposely hit by a NASA probe in 2022 ...

NASA’s DART mission successfully deflected the asteroid Dimorphos through kinetic impact in 2022, altering its trajectory.

With a hurricane approaching, two high-priority NASA and European missions to an asteroid and Jupiter's moon Europa face delays.

A Belfast-based astronomer is to take part in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) first planetary-defence mission, to help ward ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) prepares to launch its Hera spacecraft in October on its first planetary defense mission.

This information will help the scientific community and space agencies generalize the results and further develop models for effectively deflecting asteroids from their collision paths with Earth ...