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.

European space probe Hera flew past Mars on Wednesday on its way to Dimorphos on its planetary defence mission. During the flyby, the probe captured unique images ... change its orbit," Hera's ...

A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken stunning bonus images of Mars and its moon Deimos en route to its final ...

the probe soared past Mars and sent back photos of the planet's surface, according to NASA. In 1971, NASA's Mariner 9 became the first mission to successfully orbit Mars. The Viking 1 and 2 ...

Mars’s axis of rotation is tilted 25.2 degrees relative to the plane of the planet’s orbit around the sun, which helps give Mars seasons similar to those on Earth. Whichever hemisphere is ...

And, their weight and design mean they can also travel beyond Earth’s immediate neighborhood, potentially ferrying humans to the moon, Mars, and beyond. By moving into orbit with its Commercial ...

The flyby took place on Wednesday (March 12), and the European Space Agency presented the images during a webcast ... whereas Phobos and Deimos orbit Mars in the red planet's equatorial plane ...