impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes observatory captured imagery of the impact from the French island of La Reunion. Meanwhile, the first imagery from ...

Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby of Mars, ...

The 776th session of the Xiangshan Science Conference, themed "Key Scientific and Engineering Challenges in Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) Defense," convenes on March 13 at the Xiangshan Hotel in Beijing.

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

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

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 used the opportunity to test some of its scientific instruments, snapping ...

Hera is Europe's contribution to the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA ... The probe is scheduled to arrive at the Didymos-Dimorphos system in 2026, where it will spend at least six ...

According to NASA, DART's impact changed Dimorphos' orbit around its parent asteroid, Didymos, by 32 minutes. On Wednesday, during a Mars gravity assist, Hera used its trio of instruments to hone ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant impact on Mars. Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos ...

Its primary mission is to visit the binary asteroid Didymos and Dimorphos ... Hera is heading there to study the crater made by the DART impact, and to learn more about the properties of both ...