The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...

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

Images from the Hera mission show the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

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

Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

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 worldwide tech leading Dutch firm, cosine, is making a big impact in space exploration. The company is playing a key role in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission by providing a ...

"Mars was at exactly the right spot for us to get to Didymos and save propellant," said Carnelli. "So we literally used the gravity of Mars to pull us and then throw us deeper into space by ...

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