This planetary defense probe is on its way to visit the first asteroid whose orbit has been modified by human action. On Wednesday night, the planetary defense probe Hera captured images of the surface of Mars, as well as the face of Deimos, the smaller and more mysterious of the two Martian moons. RELATED: NASA […]

Launched in 2023, Juice has an eight-year cruise with flybys of Earth and Venus to slingshot it to Jupiter. On Wednesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) informed that Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has successfully completed the world’s first lunar-Earth flyby, using the gravity of Earth to send it Venus-bound, on a shortcut to Jupiter […]