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.

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

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

Europe's HERA mission has taken a good look at Mars and its moon Deimos on its way to explore the aftermath of the DART ...

NASA has issued an earthly arrival date for an asteroid valued at a staggering £10,000,000,000,000,000,000. The government ...

The company’s Odin spacecraft was launched successfully on Feb. 26, but it soon encountered huge communication difficulties, ...

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

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 ...

on 7 October 2024 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and did a flyby of Mars on 12 March 2025 on the way to the asteroid, which it won’t reach until October 2026. Hera came as near as 5000 ...

But Hera will not reach the asteroid -- which is 11 million kilometres from Earth in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter -- until late 2026. On the long voyage there, the spacecraft received a ...