The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a ...

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

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

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...

and because the moon is tidally locked — meaning one full spin matches the amount of time it takes to complete its orbit of ...

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

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

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

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 ...

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

Martian moon Deimos appears dark, framed by the brighter planet Mars behind it, in this visible light monochromatic Asteroid Framing Camera image, acquired by ESA’s Hera spacecraft during its ...