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‘Gravity tractor’ could be deployed to nudge asteroids away from Earth, says European Space AgencyHollywood films would have us believe the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of orbit. But the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking at a far subtler approach to ...
Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...
ESA’s Hera probe captures stunning images of Mars and its moon Deimos during a historic flyby, offering new insights into the ...
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
A long-awaited rocket with a replacement crew for two stranded NASA astronauts has finally launched to the International ...
Europe's Hera spacecraft flew by Mars this week on its way to catch up with an asteroid and tested out its cameras on the Red Planet's tiniest moon.
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 ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
Hera will investigate the consequences of the targeted impact of the Dart probe into an asteroid moon. It has now gained ...
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 ...
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