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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared Imager ...

Picture this. You're sitting at breakfast, scrolling the news, when suddenly headlines scream that a space rock the size of a ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera spacecraft successfully tested its autonomous surface feature tracking system during a high-speed flyby of Mars, marking a crucial milestone ahead of its mission ...

Hera, European Space Agency’s (ESA) flagship planetary defense mission that launched in October 2024, took images of Mars and Deimos, one of its two moons, March 12. The mission’s flyby was used as a ...

The infinite cosmos is a dangerous place brimming with threatening space rocks that, at any moment, could be discovered on a treacherous collision course with Earth. Just ask the dinosaurs. The ...

Back in 2022 American space agency NASA slammed a spacecraft named Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) into the Dimorphos asteroid. The 14,000 mph (22,530 kph) impact was powerful enough to alter ...

The small, lumpy moon Deimos pictured in front of Mars in an image taken by Europe's HERA probe Deimos is the smaller and more mysterious of Mars' two moons The asteroid Dimorphos, pictured by the ...

(CNN) — Space agencies are keeping a close eye on a recently discovered asteroid that has a small chance of impacting Earth. Named 2024 YR4, the asteroid has a 1.2% chance of hitting our planet on ...

The hardest push on asteroid Dimorphos in 2022 was not providedby NASA’s half-ton Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft but instead came from the asteroid itself. As the spacecraft ...

In 1908, a powerful asteroid struck the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in a remote Siberian forest of Russia. The event leveled trees and destroyed forests across 770 square miles, which is equal to the ...