Hera spacecraft successfully tested its autonomous surface feature tracking system during a high-speed flyby of Mars, marking ...

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 its instruments, ...

That maneuver shortened Hera's travel time to Dimorphos, the ESA said. Hera will also collect information about Didymos, the asteroid that Dimorphos orbits around. Hera is expected to reach the ...

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to rovers on the Martian surface. The only way to see Deimos’ far side up close is ...

Back in 2022 American space agency NASA slammed a spacecraft named Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) into the Dimorphos asteroid. The 14,000 mph (22,530 kph) impact was powerful enough to ...

Deimos crossing Mars. Credit: ESA Hera’s target binary asteroid system is much smaller than Deimos. Dimorphos is a 558-foot-wide (170-meter) space rock that orbits its larger 2,625-foot-wide ...

Observations from Earth showed that by smashing the craft, which had a mass of 580 kilograms on impact, into the distant asteroid Dimorphos at 6.6 kilometres per second, NASA successfully changed ...

The small, lumpy moon Deimos pictured in front of Mars in an image taken by Europe's HERA probe Deimos is the smaller and more mysterious of Mars' two moons The asteroid Dimorphos, pictured by the ...

collided with the tiny asteroid Dimorphos, more than 7 million miles from Earth. DART was a success, shortening Dimorphos’s orbit by 32 minutes. DART wasn’t perfect. The collision also ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant impact on Mars. Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos ...

Next, HERA will turn its focus back to the asteroid Dimorphos. When NASA's DART mission smashed into Dimorphos in 2022, it shortened the 160-metre-wide asteroid's orbit around its big brother ...

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 ...