Phobos and Deimos – these names from Greek mythology were given to the moons of our neighbouring planet Mars, discovered in 1877 by the US astronomer Asaph Hall. Besides Earth's Moon, they are the ...

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

Mars' moon Phobos may actually be a comet — or at least part of one — that was gravitationally captured by the Red Planet long ago, a new preprint study based on previously unpublished photos ...

Mars has fascinated people throughout history, and today, it is one of the most explored places in the solar system ... potato-shaped moons, called Phobos and Deimos. These moons are named ...

This mission will collect data from Deimos as well as Mars’ other moon, Phobos, where it will eventually land and collect samples to bring back to Earth. The mission is anticipated for a 2026 ...

With a radius of 2,106 miles, Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system and about half ... small and irregularly shaped moons, Phobos and Deimos. The two lumpy worlds, discovered ...

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, but scientists know relatively ... one of the largest known craters in the solar ...

It's called Deimos, and is much smaller and more mysterious than Phobos, the first moon of Mars. The pictures were taken by the ESA's Hera mission, which is on its way to an asteroid called ...

Several US missions and the European Mars Express mission ... mission will explore how the two Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, formed, and improve our understanding of the formation of the planets ...

It has been orbiting Mars for the past two years regularly flying past Deimos and its big sibling moon Phobos. It used instruments that measure infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths in order to ...

No, it's Phobos, Mars' "potato-shaped" moon, crossing the face of the Sun! NASA's Perseverance Mars rover zoomed in on a Phobos solar eclipse ... And Mars' other moon, Deimos, is even smaller ...

A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken stunning bonus images of Mars and its moon Deimos en route to its final ...