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

ESA's Hera spacecraft inaugurated use of its science instruments to image the smaller of the planet's two moons, Deimos.

Images from the Hera mission show the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian ...

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

European spacecraft Hera whizzed past Mars on Wednesday, and snapped an unprecedented view of Deimos, its lesser-known of two ...

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

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

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

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

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

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