ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has shared images of Earth as seen from deep space, captured by the Hera mission using a ...

Now, an ESA mission called Hera is on its way to assess the aftermath of the DART impact to determine whether the collision merely left behind a crater or if the spacecraft’s momentum completely ...

By April this year, scientists will start to decide whether to send a mission to intercept an asteroid that may hit Earth in ...

Redwire (RDW) announced it has been awarded a study contract from the European Space Agency, or ESA, to develop the preliminary spacecraft ...

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying attention to it.

Euclid, the ESA spacecraft launched in July 2023 designed to observe deep space in the hope of unlocking the mysteries of the universe, spotted its first strong gravitational lens as it set about ...

New data from US space agency believes that the 2024 YR4 asteroid now has over a 3 per cent chance of hitting the planet in ...

An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.