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

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of ... in our Solar System to have had its orbit measurably altered by human action." ...

"As soon as we can get it going, we would want to start having some type of presence on the moon sustainably," she told ...

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

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

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

Mr. Irving is an investigative journalist who has covered aviation and aerospace for more than 30 years.

Under SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's vision, humans could then land on the Red Planet in 2029, though he admitted 2031 is "more ...

The Hera mission spacecraft captured views of the moon's far side, swinging within 625 ... they were once asteroids captured in orbit around Mars or are chunks of the planet itself, blown out ...

"We’re a good 15 years away from going to Mars, not five years as Elon Musk alludes to," former NASA astronaut José Hernández ...

Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of ... whereas Phobos and Deimos orbit Mars in the red planet's equatorial plane and in prograde fashion. So an alternative hypothesis is that they ...

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of ... in our Solar System to have had its orbit measurably altered by human action." ...