The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

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

The Hera probe from the European Space Agency (ESA) recently captured spectacular images of Deimos, the smallest moon of Mars ...

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

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

If you want to know about Hera, a satellite hurtling through deep space toward two asteroids, you can just ask it. “My mission is to study the aftermath of NASA’s DART impact on the asteroid Dimorphos ...

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

Hera, European Space Agency’s (ESA) flagship planetary defense mission that launched in October 2024, took images of Mars and Deimos, one of its two moons, yesterday. The mission’s flyby was ...

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 ...

“We were waiting with impatience to get these images,” said Patrick Michel, the principal investigator for Hera, during a Thursday news conference at mission control in Darmstadt, German ...