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 ...

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

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 ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

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

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

ESA's Hera spacecraft inaugurated use of its science instruments to image the smaller of the planet's two moons, Deimos.

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

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

One exciting project currently happening is NASA’s Lucy mission, which is on a quest to learn more about asteroids orbiting near Jupiter known as Trojans. These asteroids are thought to be ancient ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.