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

ESA's Hera spacecraft inaugurated use of its science instruments to image the smaller of the planet's two moons, Deimos.

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

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

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

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a ...

Venus does have one known quasi-moon, Zoozve, but this does not count because it actually orbits the sun, not Venus. Advancements in technology can explain the sudden increase in moon discoveries.

Something similar will take place when humanity leaves Earth for destinations such as the Moon and Mars – although astronauts will face even greater challenges than, for example, the Vikings did ...

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby ... the asteroid that Dimorphos orbits around. Hera is expected to reach the Didymos ...

Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face ... inclined and often retrograde orbits, whereas Phobos and Deimos orbit Mars in the red planet's equatorial plane and in prograde fashion.