How "asteroid detectives" protect Earth from potential impacts 03:15. A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon.

The Hera also boasts an impressive runtime, with one charge of its 44.4-volt/29,400-mAh lithium battery reportedly allowing it to fly with no payload for 56 minutes.

Hera, European Space Agency’s (ESA) flagship planetary defense mission that launched in October 2024, took images of Mars and Deimos, one of its two moons, March 12. The mission’s flyby was ...

Hera’s mission will focus on the asteroid Dimorphos, where a golf cart-sized spacecraft crashed on Sept. 26, 2022. That mission, called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), shortened ...

The Hera Space Companion, an AI-powered assistant that offers new dimensions of interactivity, is at the heart of the mission. Users can converse directly with the spacecraft, follow discoveries in ...

The European Hera mission will follow NASA's DART asteroid-deflecting spacecraft to the binary space rock Didymos and detail the aftermath of DART's collision with the smaller of the two asteroids ...

Europe's Hera mission to the asteroid Dimorphos, which NASA's DART probe hit in 2022, has arrived at its Florida launch site ahead of its planned Oct. 7 liftoff.