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

A European spacecraft on a journey to study NASA's asteroid crash site did a quick pop-in of Mars on its way, capturing ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

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

"But as we flew by Mars this gave us more than a thousand images that are absolutely breathtaking." Mars has two moons, named Phobos and Deimos, but because Phobos is closer to Mars, it has been ...

Exactly how Deimos and the bigger Phobos were formed remains a matter ... been shot from a massive impact on the surface. The new images add "another piece of the puzzle" to efforts to determine ...

Out of the two moons, Deimos is smaller and more mysterious. "For Deimos, we don't have as many images as Phobos, so all ...