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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Space probe Hera passed Mars while on its way to the Didymos asteroid system as part of planetary defence mission.

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

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

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