Hera spacecraft successfully tested its autonomous surface feature tracking system during a high-speed flyby of Mars, marking ...

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

Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby of Mars, ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

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.

The spacecraft used itself as a kinetic impactor, targeting Dimorphos at around 22,530km (14,000 miles) per hour. This was ...

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

That maneuver shortened Hera's travel time to Dimorphos, the ESA said. Hera will also collect information about Didymos, the asteroid that Dimorphos orbits around. Hera is expected to reach the ...

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 used the opportunity to test some of its scientific instruments, snapping ...

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

But its mission operators also wanted to take advantage of the Martian flyby and use it to test the mechanical eyes that will ...