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 ...

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

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...

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

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

Hera spacecraft captured an extraordinary near-infrared image of Mars’ moon Deimos during a flyby of the Red Planet. This ...

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

Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared Imager images acquired during the Hera mission's gravity-assist flyby of Mars on March 12, 2025.

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

Deimos is about 15,000 miles from Mars. Scientists have previously speculated that it may actually be a piece of asteroid, not a moon. Hera got as close as 1,000 kilometers, or about 620 miles ...