A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...

Hera spacecraft captured an extraordinary near-infrared image of Mars’ moon Deimos during a flyby of the Red Planet. This ...

Hera will investigate the consequences of the targeted impact of the Dart probe into an asteroid moon. It has now gained ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...

According to the European Space Agency (ESA), the Red Planet’s gravity will tweak the probe’s path, cutting months off the ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometres from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometres an hour. It ...