Goodnight room, goodnight moon. The Hera spacecraft, speeding on to an asteroid, took a look back at Earth's moon — and in a new animation, you can see our neighbor shrinking as Hera flies away.

Asteroid Dimorphos, the moon of the much larger ... have already been dense [with] emotion for the teams, with the first pictures taken from the various instruments and the first successful ...

primarily from the University of Tokyo and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), noted numerous dark red particles measuring 0.3 millimeters or less flying off the asteroid in the photos ...

JAXA proudly tweeted pictures from the rovers, which reached Earth via the spaceship Hayabusa-2. Hayabusa-2 reached the asteroid Ryugu in June this year after a three-and-a-half-year journey.

The flying object was a capsule containing the first samples ever collected from an asteroid - the fruits of Japan's Hayabusa-2 mission. In 2014, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft as it would look in space. Dimorphos is a small moonlet that orbits the bigger asteroid Didymos. In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into Dimorphos to see if it could change ...