Hera spacecraft captured an extraordinary near-infrared image of Mars’ moon Deimos during a flyby of the Red Planet. This marks the first use of Hera’s science instruments, providing a detailed view ...

Mars is probably smaller than you think. It's just half the size of Earth, with barely a third of its mass. Even the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos are petite, measuring just a few kilometers in ...

Phobos and Deimos – these names from Greek mythology were given to the moons of our neighbouring planet Mars, discovered in 1877 by the US astronomer Asaph Hall. Besides Earth's Moon, they are the ...

Back in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the moon, scientists knew of just 31 other moons in our ...

New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...

took images of Mars and Deimos, one of its two moons, yesterday. The mission’s flyby was used as a gravity assist to its final destination at the binary asteroid system Dimorphos and Didymos.

Deimos is about 15,000 miles from Mars ... and start our crash site investigation of the only object in our Solar System to have had its orbit measurably altered by human action." ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid ... on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby of Mars ...