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part of one — that was gravitationally captured by the Red Planet long ago, a new preprint study based on previously unpublished photos ...

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

Thanks Nasa’s Perseverance rover, we Earth dwellers are able to enjoy the sight of Mars’ potato-shaped moon Phobos eclipsing the Sun. Well, a bit of it. Martian eclipses are very different to ...

Astronomers used a computer to simulate the orbits of both Phobos and Deimos. The moons of Mars — Phobos and Deimos — are two fragments of what was once a much larger Martian satellite that ...

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 ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft's trajectory towards the Didymos binary asteroid system, shortening its trip ...

With groups like NASA and the European Space Agency focusing largely on missions to explore Earth’s moon and Mars, the Japanese ... sample from the Martian moon Phobos and sending it back ...

European space probe Hera flew past Mars on Wednesday on its way to Dimorphos ... "For Deimos, we don't have as many images as Phobos, so all opportunities to see Deimos are high value," Hera's ...

In this interview, Harald Hoffmann, a planetary geologist at the DLR Institute of Planetary Research, reports on the current debate on the formation and future of the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos.