Images from the Hera mission show the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...

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

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

ISAE-SUPAERO is actively collaborating in the international Hera probe program through the research work of Naomi Murdoch and the SSPA team. The probe, which is en route to study the asteroid ...

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 ...

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

ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft's trajectory towards the Didymos binary asteroid system, shortening its trip ...

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

Max Alexander/ESA In the coming days, the mission’s scientists will reveal more photographs from Hera’s encounter with Mars, which may include shots of Phobos, the planet’s other moon.