The European Space Agency just launched the Hera follow-up mission to see what’s shaking with the binary asteroid system. Hera has a long journey ahead, but it took a moment to look back and ...

Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky, airless remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system. Nasa releases images.

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

It will rendezvous with the binary asteroid in early 2027. We need to measure the mass of Dimorphos to measure the efficiency of the DART impact to make sure the deflection test can be ...

But this discovery shows that there are many asteroid moons out there just waiting to be found." If confirmed, this new ...

Two European cubesats have communicated that they are a-ok as they hurtle toward a binary asteroid system to check out the damage inflicted by NASA's DART impactor in 2022. DART, the Double ...

Hera is part of the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission, which plans to study the Didymos binary asteroid system. The mission will provide valuable data on asteroid deflection ...