A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket climbs away from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Oct. 7, 2024, boosting the European Space Agency's Hera probe toward deep space to explore the asteroid Didymos ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission to the binary asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Oct. 7, 2024.

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission and two satellites are on their way to survey the aftermath of NASA’s DART spacecraft, which intentionally hit an asteroid in 2022.

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 spacecraft in 2022.

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches NASA's Psyche asteroid probe on a mission to the largest metal asteroid in our solar system. (Image credit: Josh Dinner) ...

The FAA is giving the OK for the launch of the European Space Agency’s Hera mission, a followup to NASA’s DART mission that impacted an asteroid in 2021 as part of a planetary defense test to ...

More important, a Falcon 9 will be used to launch the European Space Agency's $390 million Hera asteroid probe from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station around Oct. 7, followed by launch of NASA ...

SpaceX Launches ESA’s Hera Asteroid Mission The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will investigate an asteroid that NASA deliberately struck with another spacecraft in a previous test of ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket roared to life and soared through the dark California skies early Wednesday, carrying a small probe that could teach NASA how to save Earth from dangerous asteroids. NASA ...

SpaceX launched its Bandwagon-3 mission into orbit Monday night from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, with more satellites and a re-entry capsule on board that will become a first ...