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 ...

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

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

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

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

But its mission operators also wanted to take advantage of the Martian flyby and use it to test the mechanical eyes that will ...

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

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

Credit: ESA Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby of Mars, receiving a crucial gravitational slingshot, testing some of ...