A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of ...

European space probe Hera flew past Mars on Wednesday on its way to Dimorphos on its planetary defence mission. During the ...

Mars is a notoriously difficult target for space probes, somewhere that multiple missions have for various reasons failed to reach. We hope the Tianwen-1 mission is ultimately successful and that ...

iReport.com: Send your photos, video of space "We always have to be scared ... NASA had not successfully landed a probe on Mars using landing legs and stabilizing thrusters since the Viking ...

Space probes have witnessed a big impact crater being formed on Mars - the largest in the Solar System ever caught in the act of excavation. A van-sized object dug out a 150m-wide bowl on the Red ...

Hera is set to reach its asteroid target in 2026, but the space probe got to dust off its science tools for the first time during its Mars flyby on Wednesday. The spacecraft came as close as 3,106 ...

"Last night was a very short night, I think we slept about 3 hours," said Hera Project Manager Ian Carnelli, of the European Space Agency during the ESA webcast. "But as we flew by Mars this gave ...

the James Webb Space Telescope, the Voyager probes, all our orbiters and rovers at Mars and dozens of other missions. Continued robotic missions are essential to enable human missions to Mars.

Each probe has suffered deep-space weathering for 47 years ... NASA's rover Curiosity finds biggest known organic molecules on Mars March 25 (UPI) -- The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered what ...

Some of the missions undertaken by space probes include: Viking 1 and Viking 2 - landed on Mars in the 1970s, took photographs and analysed soil samples Mars Global Surveyor - went into orbit ...