Scientists have issued a chilling update on the 'city-destroying' asteroid due to make a perilously close pass of Earth and ...

YR4 is around 130-300 feet across, according to NASA estimates and could cause massive damage if it hits the Earth ...

The spacecraft captured the Red Planet and its enigmatic moons, Deimos and Phobos, marking its first deep-space imaging ...

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Tyvak to build the first CubeSat for the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety ...

Launched in 2024, the Hera mission's primary objective is to collect data on Dimorphos, an asteroid impacted by NASA's DART mission in 2022. To reach its target, Hera used Mars' gravitational assist, ...

ISAE-SUPAERO is actively collaborating in the international Hera probe program through the research work of Naomi Murdoch and the SSPA team. The probe, which is en route to study the asteroid ...

Hera used its black and white Asteroid Framing Camera (above) which is used for both navigation and scientific purposes. This camera is used to indicate what characteristics appear in visible light.

An asteroid-chasing spacecraft just swung past Mars on Wednesday. As it zipped by, it took hundreds of shots of the Red Planet, as well as several snaps of Deimos, one of the two small Martian moons.

It follows NASA’s 2022 DART mission, which successfully altered the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos for the first time in humanity’s history. Hera will now assess the impact and further refine ...