New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...

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

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

Hera spacecraft captured an extraordinary near-infrared image of Mars’ moon Deimos during a flyby of the Red Planet. This ...

Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

Hollywood films would have you believe that the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of ...

ESA’s Hera probe captures stunning images of Mars and its moon Deimos during a historic flyby, offering new insights into the ...

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.

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

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometres from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometres an hour. It ...

Europe's Hera spacecraft flew by Mars this week on its way to catch up with an asteroid and tested out its cameras on the Red Planet's tiniest moon.

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