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

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

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 Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Europe's HERA mission has taken a good look at Mars and its moon Deimos on its way to explore the aftermath of the DART ...

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.

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

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

Hera will investigate the consequences of the targeted impact of the Dart probe into an asteroid moon. It has now gained ...