The Hera probe from the European Space Agency (ESA) recently captured spectacular images of Deimos, the smallest moon of Mars ...

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

Hera, European Space Agency's (ESA) flagship planetary defense mission that launched in October 2024, took images of Mars and ...

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

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

Technology designed in Dublin will assist a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft called Hera as it navigates a close fly-by ...

On Wednesday, March 12, 2025, the European Space Agency’s planetary defence probe skimmed within 5000 km of the Red ...

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

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

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

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