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 ...

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

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

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

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

Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...

Both Phobos and Deimos look like asteroids ... For example, the presence of basalt would imply their materials came from the surface of Mars, where there has been extensive volcanism in the ...

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

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 ...