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

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

Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Mars has two moons, named Phobos and Deimos, but because Phobos is closer to Mars, it has been previously imaged by other spacecraft. "For Deimos, we don't have as many images as Phobos ...

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 ...