On its way to Didymos and Dimorphos, Hera has found time to test its cameras in preparation for the big moment.

On 23 October, Hera fired its three orbital control thrusters for 100 minutes, kicking off its first deep-space maneuver and changing its velocity by approximately 146 m/s. A second burn on 6 ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft is currently headed toward the aftermath of NASA's DART asteroid-deflection test. But first, it'll stop by Mars to study the Martian moon Deimos.

Hera was about 620 miles (1000 km) from the 7.7-mile-wide (12.4-m) Martian moon when the image was taken. Deimos orbits approximately 14,600 miles (23,500 km) from the surface of Mars.

Hera was moving at 9 kilometres per second relative to Mars and was able to image the 12.4-kilometre-long Deimos from just 1000 kilometres away.

Europe's Hera asteroid probe will use the Red Planet for a gravity assist on its way to scope out the space rock crash site of NASA's DART impactor.

With the maneuver on Mars, Hera has now shortened the travel time there by months and saved a "substantial amount of fuel", as the ESA writes. Relative to the Red Planet, the probe was traveling ...

Launched in 2024, the Hera mission's primary objective is to collect data on Dimorphos, an asteroid impacted by NASA's DART mission in 2022. To reach its target, Hera used Mars' gravitational assist, ...

NASA has selected four new volunteers to participate in a 45-day simulation of life on Mars, known as the HERA project. The mission, which will begin on November 1, will involve the crew ...

This past summer, Professor Jason Lee of the University of Connecticut’s Mechanical Engineering Department traded in his usual lab clothes for a spacesuit, spending 45 days in NASA’s Human Exploration ...

Four volunteers will soon get a trip to "Mars". NASA announced on Monday, April 15 that they had selected the next crew for their simulated Mars mission at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The ...

During a flyby of Mars on Wednesday (March 12), ESA's Hera spacecraft inaugurated use of its science instruments to image the smaller of the planet's two moons, Deimos.