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 ...

The Hera mission to follow-up on the aftermath of NASA's DART asteroid crash has caught sight of two other asteroids in an important test of its camera ahead of its rendezvous its main target: 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 ...

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of Deimos, ...

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 ...

A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken stunning bonus images of Mars and its moon Deimos en route to its final ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, the European Space ...

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 ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first real-world test of a bold planetary defense idea: Could a spacecraft push an ...

Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby of Mars, receiving a crucial gravitational slingshot, testing some of its instruments, ...

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 ...