Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Scientists still debate whether these came from asteroids that passed close into Mars' ...

Discover when and how to view the rare lunar occultation of Mars on January 13, 2025, including optimal viewing times across ...

Computer simulations suggest that Mars' puzzling moons, Phobos and Deimos, may have been formed from debris created when a large asteroid wandered dangerously close to the Red Planet. This new ...

Material from asteroid Ryugu riddled with earthly microbes provides a cautionary tale for scientists seeking signs of alien ...

Mars currently has two satellite moons – Phobos and Deimos – the twin sons of Ares, the god of war (Mars in Roman mythology) ...

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Scientists still debate whether these came from asteroids that passed close into Mars' Hill sphere radius and got captured by the planet, or if they were ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a ...

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 ...

Several US missions and the European Mars Express mission, launched in 2003, have already provided data and images from Mars orbit that have helped to observe the moons. However, there was no ...

It's just half the size of Earth, with barely a third of its mass. Even the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos are petite, measuring just a few kilometers in diameter. Scientists aren't even sure how ...