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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aside from capturing images of the slightly misshapen moon, Hera also performed ... performing a detailed, post-impact survey from space. The spacecraft is scheduled for a follow-up maneuver ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

The sun has set on the Blue Ghost spacecraft ... plain inside an ancient 345-mile-wide impact crater in the northeast quadrant of the near side of the moon. Blue Ghost became the first completely ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now that the lander is on the moon's surface, the 10 NASA instruments aboard the spacecraft will begin a ... space weather and other cosmic forces impact Earth," NASA said in a statement.

The spacecraft is solar-powered and spends the daylight portion of its roughly two-hour orbit around the moon using its solar ... from the crater during the impact, Diviner found that the "cold ...

It is unclear how that might impact the mission ... Hours after the 15-foot-tall robotic spacecraft arrived at the moon’s surface, closer to the lunar south pole than any spacecraft has been ...

Europe's HERA mission is aiming to find out how much of an impact a NASA spacecraft made when it deliberately ... The lumpy, 12.5 kilometer-wide moon is the smaller and less well-known of the ...