The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...
A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.
Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...
The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...
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 ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...
Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, but scientists know relatively little about them, especially the smaller one, Deimos.
For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometres from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometres an hour. It ...