The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

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

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

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

Once in lunar orbit, two modules will descend to the surface ... has captured a rare astronomical event in which the Martian moon Phobos passed in front of the Sun, creating a visual reminiscent ...

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

Advertising In the coming days, the mission’s scientists will reveal more photographs from Hera’s encounter with Mars, which ...

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 ...

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

New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...

Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of ... inclined and often retrograde orbits, whereas Phobos and Deimos orbit Mars in the red planet's equatorial plane and in prograde fashion.