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

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, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby of Mars, ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

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

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...

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

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...

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 ...

Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...