The weather wasn't looking too promising Monday morning ahead of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera mission, scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 10:52 a.m. ET. However, the weather ...

Hera, the first planetary defence spacecraft of the European Space Agency (ESA), has departed planet Earth. The Hera mission is headed to a unique target among the more than 1,3-million known ...

NASA has narrowed down to four planetary science projects, from which it will choose two missions to explore the distant reaches of our solar system. Two of the missions would visit Venus, another ...

The "Hera" planetary defense mission has been launched. At 16:52 Swiss time, the probe lifted off on board a Falcon 9 rocket from the private space company SpaceX, as a live broadcast of the launch ...

Hera will survey the asteroid deflected by NASA's DART spacecraft, the results of which could lay the foundation of Earth's planetary defence system. A European mission that could prove fundamental to ...

NASA successfully disrupted the orbit of an asteroid in a mission last month that tested a strategy to defend against a potential asteroid headed toward Earth, the agency said on Tuesday. "This is a ...

Mars, long considered largely static, has revealed a dynamic interior in recent years. NASA’s InSight mission detected ...

Bengaluru: After India's much hailed successful missions to the Moon and Mars that boosted its global standing in space, the next inter-planetary expedition to be launched is under discussion, ...

The department ‘Planetary Laboratories’ (PLL) combines a wide and highly complementary range of laboratory setups. We offer laboratory techniques as well as environmental chambers that cover almost ...

Rebecca Ghent, Associate Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, is a planetary scientist who works with NASA and researchers at various institutions to study geological processes on ...