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

Space probe Hera passed Mars while on its way to the Didymos asteroid system as part of planetary defence mission. View on ...

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

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 ...

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 776th session of the Xiangshan Science Conference, themed "Key Scientific and Engineering Challenges in Near-Earth ...

Mars and its lesser-known city-sized moon, Deimos, has been imaged by a spacecraft on its way to study an asteroid.

ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft's trajectory towards the Didymos binary asteroid system, shortening its trip ...

On Wednesday, March 12, 2025, the European Space Agency’s planetary defence probe skimmed within 5000 km of the Red ...

The satellite was launched in October 2024 and is expected to reach the binary asteroid system of Didymos and its moon Dimorphos. The Hera Space Companion is a creation of Terra Mater Studios (a ...

NEO Surveyor will lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Space Coast no earlier than September 2027. The total value ...

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