SpaceX rocket launches Europe's Hera planetary defense probe to visit asteroid smacked by NASA — Hera probe snaps its 1st images of Earth and moon on way to asteroid crash site — NASA's ...

SpaceX launched the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft on Monday to see if a test NASA performed in 2022 to knock the moonlet off its orbit from an asteroid actually worked. The launch of the ...

The European Space Agency on Monday launched a spacecraft aboard a SpaceX rocket to investigate a harmless asteroid that Nasa hit in 2022 as part of a "planetary defence test". The spacecraft ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within ...

The European ... successful launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on Monday morning. The mission, if successful, will provide key understanding on how to protect Earth from massive asteroid impacts ...

It's the first reentry mission ever conducted by a European company, according to Atmos. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the Bandwagon-3 rideshare mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ...

SpaceX is set to launch the European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft, designed to study the asteroid Dimorphos, today (Oct. 7). The mission will assess the impact made by NASA's DART (Double ...

28 Crew-9 launch ... SpaceX is preparing for two time-sensitive launches in the coming weeks. One Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch as soon as Oct. 7 carrying the European Space Agency’s Hera ...

SpaceX is getting closer to launching Starship, the world's largest rocket, once again on a critical flight test later in May.