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

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

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

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

Images from the Hera mission show the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

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

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

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

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometres from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometres an hour. It ...