The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

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

Hera will investigate the consequences of the targeted impact of the Dart probe into an asteroid moon. It has now gained ...

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

Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft's ...

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

Space probe Hera passed Mars while on its way to the Didymos asteroid system as part of planetary defence mission. View on ...

According to the European Space Agency (ESA), the Red Planet’s gravity will tweak the probe’s path, cutting months off the ...

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

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...