On March 12, 2025, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera spacecraft captured an extraordinary near-infrared image of Mars’ ...

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission and two satellites are on the way to survey the aftermath of NASA’s DART spacecraft, which intentionally hit an asteroid in 2022.

Navigators managed to fly Hera about 600 miles above Deimos, a craggy moon just 9 miles long. The pass shows the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred ...

The Hera spacecraft, ... The car-size orbiter launched from Cape Canaveral on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 10:52 a.m. Eastern time against a backdrop of gray, cloudy skies.

The Hera asteroid probe has passed a critical milestone on its journey to study the site of the first asteroid deflection test. The European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft fired its three orbital ...

A European spacecraft is soaring on its way to get an up-close look at the remnants of an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed its own vehicle into two years ago.. Hera, an orbiter built by the ...

Hera will attempt to go into orbit around the Dimorphos and its twin, with the flyby distances gradually dropping from 30km all the way down to 1km. Before the 2022 impact, Dimorphos circled its ...

Hera Mission: When is the SpaceX launch? How to watch. The launch window for Hera, named after the Greek goddess of marriage, will open on Monday, October 7, 2024 at 10:52 am EDT. It will be ...