The spacecraft captured the Red Planet and its enigmatic moons, Deimos and Phobos, marking its first deep-space imaging ...

On March 27, 1989, the Soviet Union's Phobos 2 mission to Mars' moons ended in failure. But the whole mission was definitely ...

Back in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the moon, scientists knew of just 31 other moons in our ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

ISAE-SUPAERO is actively collaborating in the international Hera probe program through the research work of Naomi Murdoch and the SSPA team. The probe, which is en route to study the asteroid ...

New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...

As it zipped by, it took hundreds of shots of the Red Planet, as well as several snaps of Deimos, one of the two small ...

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, believed to have formed either ... It should reach "the first asteroid to have had its orbit altered by human action" in December 2026, proving once and ...

Unlike Phobos, which is predicted to crash into Mars in a few million years, Deimos maintains a stable orbit. Scientists have long debated whether it is a captured asteroid or a remnant of an ...

"The simplest definition [of a moon] would be an object that is in an orbit around a larger, non-stellar object," Ashton told Live Science. "But that is not quite the complete answer." For example ...