On 12 March 2025, the Hera spacecraft used Mars's gravity to accelerate its journey to the Didymos/Dimorphos binary asteroid system. The probe's camera system, developed and built in Germany, captured ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, the European Space ...

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 ...

A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken stunning bonus images of Mars and its moon Deimos en route to its final ...

An asteroid which could be up to 220 feet wide will now miss Earth - but the chances of the space rock slamming into the moon ...

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.

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of ...

Next year, Hera will investigate the consequences of the targeted impact of the Dart probe into an asteroid moon. It has now gained momentum on Mars. The asteroid probe Hera has taken a flyby of ...

But HERA will not reach the asteroid—which is 11 million kilometers (seven million miles) from Earth in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter—until late 2026.

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to rovers on the Martian surface. The only way to see Deimos’ far side up close is ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, the European ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared ...