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 ...

Hera, European Space Agency's (ESA) flagship planetary defense mission that launched in October 2024, took images of Mars and ...

Europe's HERA mission has taken a good look at Mars and its moon Deimos on its way to explore the aftermath of the DART ...

NASA also conducted an asteroid deflection test when it smashed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test into the asteroid Dimorphos, which orbited a larger object called Didymos. The mission ...

This was the first time humans intentionally changed the motion of a celestial object. Based on interviews with space experts and research on Didymos' destruction capacity, The Sun takes a look ...

Nov. 1, 2022 — On September 26, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft crashed into Dimorphos, a moonlet of the near-Earth asteroid Didymos ... Earth and an object about ...

The impact will affect only how Dimorphos orbits Didymos, not how either object orbits the Sun. There is zero chance of DART causing the asteroid system to threaten Earth. DART launched from ...

"These are collectively known as near-Earth objects, or NEOs ... probe on its way to the binary asteroid system Didymos. Ten months later, DART slammed into the smaller space rock in the system ...

Credit: ESA Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid ... which observes light from celestial objects through 25 filters extending from visible wavelengths ...