As a result of its proximity to Mars, Phobos is slowly getting closer to Mars and will likely crash into Mars in less than 40 million years. Deios however, will meet a similar end to that of Earth ...

Phobos is one of two moons orbiting Mars ... ‘At that rate, the moon will either crash into Mars in 50 million years or break up into a ring,’ Nasa said.

Each century, Phobos gets about six feet closer to Mars; in 50 million years or so, the moon is projected either to crash into the red planet’s surface or break into smithereens. Since the 1960s ...

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, but scientists know relatively ... Back in 2022, NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into a harmless asteroid to practice thwarting a space rock, should a ...

An asteroid-chasing spacecraft just swung past Mars on Wednesday. As it zipped by ... the Double Asteroid Redirection Test. DART deliberately crashed a spacecraft into that asteroid, aiming to change ...

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 ...

This debris would have then formed a ring around Mars that eventually coalesced into Phobos and Deimos. There could have even been other moons that were then lost to Mars or returned to the planet in ...