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 ...
Hera spacecraft captured an extraordinary near-infrared image of Mars’ moon Deimos during a flyby of the Red Planet. This ...
Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.
The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...
The spacecraft, meant to detect water ice on the moon, has been unable to perform ... Laboratory and Caltech found that the solar wind’s impact on Uranus’s magnetosphere was a unique ...
Still, the spacecraft has performed smoothly on ... NASA Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander will touch down in a vast impact basin on the moon's near side, the side that faces Earth, called ...
The cameras captured detailed images of the lunar surface, including craters and highland areas, as the spacecraft approached the Moon. The final images showed the impact point and features of the ...
A privately built spacecraft has successfully landed on the moon, a feat that only one other ... thought to be the site of an ancient asteroid impact, according to NASA. Earlier this week, the ...