Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

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

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

European space probe Hera flew past Mars on Wednesday on its way to Dimorphos ... "For Deimos, we don't have as many images as Phobos, so all opportunities to see Deimos are high value," Hera's ...

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of ...

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, so all opportunities to see Deimos are high value ...

Next year, Hera will investigate the consequences of the targeted impact of the Dart probe into an asteroid moon. It has now gained momentum on Mars. The asteroid probe Hera has taken a flyby of ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet’s mysterious small moon Deimos, the European ...