An asteroid-chasing spacecraft just swung past Mars on Wednesday. As it zipped by, it took hundreds of shots of the Red Planet, as well as ...

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Back in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the moon, scientists knew of just 31 other moons in our ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

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The Hera probe from the European Space Agency (ESA) recently captured spectacular images of Deimos, the smallest moon of Mars, during a close flyby. Deimos, the moon of Mars, appears in silhouette ...

ISAE-SUPAERO is actively collaborating in the international Hera probe program through the research work of Naomi Murdoch and the SSPA team. The probe, which is en route to study the asteroid ...

Hera, European Space Agency’s (ESA) flagship planetary defense mission that launched in October 2024, took images of Mars and Deimos, one of its two moons, yesterday. The mission’s flyby was ...

On March 12, 2025, the spacecraft performed a gravity-assist manoeuvrer around Mars, coming within 5,000 km of the planet’s surface and just 300 km from its city-sized moon Deimos.

Hera’s primary mission is to provide scientists with precise asteroid detection data to support developing a reliable and repeatable technique for future asteroid deflections. The probe will record ...