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

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant impact on Mars. Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos ...

Then there's a more recent, third possibility, which is that they could be the remains of a larger asteroid that was torn apart. Martian moon Deimos appears dark, framed by the brighter planet ...

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

Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in diameter (12.4 kilometers), is tidally-locked with the Red Planet making it often ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, ...

Scientists believe Deimos could be a leftover chunk from Mars or a gravitationally captured asteroid, according to the ESA. "These instruments have been tried out before, during Hera’s departure ...

Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby of Mars, receiving a crucial gravitational slingshot, testing some of its instruments, ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A European spacecraft en route to study an asteroid collision captured rare images of Mars' moon Deimos. The HERA mission aims to assess the impact of NASA's ...

ISAE-SUPAERO is actively collaborating in the international Hera probe program through the research work of Naomi Murdoch and the SSPA team. The probe, which is en route to study the asteroid ...