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

Hera spacecraft launches over Florida coast Though Hurricane Milton is moving its way toward Florida's western coast, the Hera spacecraft still managed to depart Monday atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

The Hera spacecraft, which took flight late Monday morning, is part of a broader effort to bolster humanity’s planetary defense readiness.

Elon Musk walked back his plan to stop operating SpaceX’s Dragon vehicle, a ship NASA depends on for astronaut and cargo runs to the International Space Station. Earlier, the executive said ...

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Hera launched Oct. 7 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, on a mission to study the asteroid that NASA's DART spacecraft smashed into in September 2022.

Liftoff of the ESA/NASA Hera mission is set for Monday, sending a spacecraft on a two year journey to a familiar asteroid system.

The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket captured amazing images of Earth Monday (Oct. 7) during the launch of Europa's Hera asteroid probe.

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket from Texas on Tuesday. Photo: Eric Gay/AP The bumpy ride continued for Elon Musk’s 400-foot-tall rocket and spacecraft.

SpaceX's ninth test flight of its Starship spacecraft, launched on May 27 from the company's Starbase facility in Texas, ended in failure shortly after liftoff.

After launch, an apparent propellant leak entered its suborbital trajectory left Starship spinning and mission control unable to control the craft.