Europe's HERA mission has taken a good look at Mars and its moon Deimos on its way to explore the aftermath of the DART ...

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

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

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

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

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

Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...

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

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

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

Focus: Space, Mars and its moons, asteroid defence ... During the flyby, Hera deployed two additional camera systems alongside the asteroid-framing cameras: The Hyperscout-H near-infrared spectrometer ...

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