Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...

ISAE-SUPAERO is actively collaborating in the international Hera probe program through the research work of Naomi Murdoch and the SSPA team. The probe, which is en route to study the asteroid ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

The worldwide tech leading Dutch firm, cosine, is making a big impact in space exploration. The company is playing a key role in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission by providing a ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

Credit: ESA/JAXA Of course, Mars is not the end goal of Hera. Its primary mission is to visit the binary asteroid Didymos and ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

Mars and its lesser-known city-sized moon, Deimos, has been imaged by a spacecraft on its way to study an asteroid.

Technology designed in Dublin will assist a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft called Hera as it navigates a close fly-by of Mars on Wednesday. An instrument designed by InnaLabs Ltd in ...

On Wednesday, March 12, 2025, the European Space Agency’s planetary defence probe skimmed within 5000 km of the Red ...