PARIS, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Europe's Hera asteroid probe blasted off from Florida on a SpaceX rocket on Monday, beginning a two-year voyage to revisit an asteroid bashed off course by NASA's DART ...

Dodging stormy weather ahead of Hurricane Milton, SpaceX launched the European Space Agency's $398 million Hera probe Monday on a follow-up flight to find out precisely how a moonlet orbiting a ...

The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by NASA two years ago in a dress rehearsal for the day a killer space rock ...

It turns out these insects have been some of the world’s tiniest farmers for 66 million years, thanks in part to the asteroid that struck Earth and set off a chain of events that led to the ...

Scientists now say that's almost precisely what happened to the dinosaurs, on a much bigger scale: the asteroid that hit Chicxulub, Mexico, is still credited with killing the dinosaurs.

29, but it won't stick around too long, USA TODAY reports. The asteroid 2024 PT5 is expected to escape Earth's orbit on Nov. 25 and be pulled toward the sun before continuing its journey through ...

The asteroid that crashed into Earth 66 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs was not alone, scientists have astonishingly claimed. According to a team at Heriot-Watt University ...

urope's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when it smashed into an asteroid during the first test of Earth's planetary ...

LOS ANGELES -- Earth's moon will soon have some company - a "mini moon." The mini moon is actually an asteroid about the size of a school bus at 33 feet (10 meters). When it whizzes by Earth on ...

A 17-foot asteroid, roughly the size of an airplane, will approach Earth on October 4. Named 2024 TF, it will pass by at a distance of 186,000 miles. Despite its size, NASA assures there’s no ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — SpaceX has launched the European Space Agency’s Hera asteroid mission on Monday morning, which will follow up on a NASA mission two years ago when it ...