However, these bodies became forever linked in orbit – thanks to gravity. This “kiss and capture” mechanism ... particularly about Pluto and its largest moon Charon. Scientists have long ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...

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

Capture theory suggests that the Moon was a wandering body (like an asteroid) that formed elsewhere in the solar system and was captured by Earth's gravity as it passed nearby. The accretion ...

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

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...