The spacecraft captured the Red Planet and its enigmatic moons, Deimos and Phobos, marking its first deep-space imaging ...

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

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

A space probe flying past Mars captured images ... Hera will also collect information about Didymos, the asteroid that Dimorphos orbits around. Hera is expected to reach the Didymos in December ...

But the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking at a far subtler ... a 525ft-wide “moonlet” which circles a larger asteroid called Didymos. The team had hoped the impact would shorten Didymos ...

from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 10:52 a.m. Hera will visit the asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos as part of the NASA/ESA Asteroid Impact and Deflection ...

"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 ...

Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid ... The flyby took place on Wednesday (March 12), and the European Space Agency presented the images during a webcast ...