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

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

More than 3 billion years ago, Mars intermittently had liquid water on its surface. After the planet lost much of its ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found large crystals of quartz with a high purity on Mars, which probably had to have formed in the ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

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

Such major and arbitrary cuts to NASA’s budget would do very little to save money, but they will undercut and decimate one of ...

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

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s. It was stopped because of the nuclear test ban treaty and ...

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