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

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

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

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

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

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

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

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

Space agencies are testing prosthetics and adaptive tech, paving the way for parastronauts on Moon missions, proving space ...

Venus does have one known quasi-moon, Zoozve, but this does not count because it actually orbits the sun, not Venus. Advancements in technology can explain the sudden increase in moon discoveries.

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby ... the asteroid that Dimorphos orbits around. Hera is expected to reach the Didymos ...

Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face ... inclined and often retrograde orbits, whereas Phobos and Deimos orbit Mars in the red planet's equatorial plane and in prograde fashion.