The Hera probe, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA), has sent back its first images of Earth and the moon ... study ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

This allowed Hera to capture the first images of Earth and the Moon from a ... the aftermath of that impact and study both the surface and internal structure of the asteroid in greater detail ...

The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at our planet ...

Scientists call such phenomena mini-moons. The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid ...

This allowed Hera to capture the first images of Earth and the Moon from a distance of more than one million km!" SEE ALSO: We could nuke an incoming asteroid ... killing" impact from a rock ...

Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid ...

On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.

The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific Ocean, seen from 1.6 million kilometers, or nearly 1 million miles, away. The ...

Some of Hera's instruments — designed to survey the impact site of NASA's successful asteroid-deflection ... Hera to capture the first images of Earth and the Moon from a distance of more ...