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

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

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

In October 2026 the spacecraft will enter the vicinity of the asteroid system in order to enter its orbit ... to the Didymos asteroid, studying it, and developing new technologies along the ...

A successful collision with its target took place on September 22, 2022, and succeeded in slowing down by a few minutes the time it takes Dimorphos to orbit Didymos (11 hours and 55 minutes), an ...

Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

The 14,000 mph (22,530 kph) impact was powerful enough to alter the orbit of the piece of space rock around its parent, Didymos, officially proving that, if need be, humans could use technology to ...

It completes one orbit around Mars every 30 hours ... space rock that orbits its larger 2,625-foot-wide (800-meter) companion, Didymos. In September 2022, NASA’s 1,340-pound spacecraft smashed ...

on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby of Mars, receiving a crucial gravitational slingshot, testing some of its instruments, and gaining new ...

Hera will also collect information about Didymos, the asteroid that Dimorphos ... of the only object in our Solar System to have had its orbit measurably altered by human action." ...

Hera will enter into the double asteroid system and orbit Didymos, but it has to deal with not only Didymos's gravity but also neighbouring Dimorphos, which has an average distance from Didymos of ...