Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...

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

This planet becomes the planet with the most moons after astronomers discover 128 new small moons, bringing its total to 274.

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

Images from the Hera mission show the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

Space probe Hera passed Mars while on its way to the Didymos asteroid system as part of planetary defence mission. View on ...

the smaller of Mars' two moons, the ESA said. Deimos is about 15,000 miles from Mars. Scientists have previously speculated that it may actually be a piece of asteroid, not a moon. Hera got as ...

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 ...