NASA smacked an asteroid in 2022. Now, a spacecraft is on the way for part 2. The Hera mission is slated to arrive at the asteroid in late 2026.

A follow-up mission to DART, Hera will travel to a binary asteroid to observe the aftermath of NASA's wildly successful kinetic impact test.

Remember when NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022? Today, a different probe was successfully launched to get a close-up look at the aftermath of the collision. About ...