One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...

Close call! NASA's Mars-orbiting spacecraft shifted course last week to avoid a collision with Mars' dark moon Phobos. The MAVEN spacecraft — short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN ...

Mars is a pretty important place these days, what with space agencies around the world doing their best to get there and SpaceX suggesting it’ll have a Mars colony built within a decade, but ...

Phobos is on a collision course with Mars Translated as "fear" in Greek, Phobos is one of two Martian moons discovered in 1877 by American astronomer Asaph Hall.

But unlike D e imos ("dread," in Greek), which is drifting ever-outward and will eventually leave Mars' orbit, Phobos is on a collision course with the Red Planet.

While Phobos orbits close to Mars at only 6,000 kilometers from the surface, Deimos orbits at about 20,000 kilometers away, ...

Mars Express, which is a 19-year-veteran spacecraft in orbit around Mars, came within 51.6 miles (83 kilometers) of Phobos on Sept. 22, 2022 and was able to probe beneath the moon's surface using ...

The orbit of Mars Express has been fine-tuned to get us as close to Phobos as possible during a handful of flybys between 2023 and 2025, which will give us great opportunities to try.” ...

Phobos is the largest of Mars’ two moons, the other one being Deimos. Scientists are uncertain about their history. They could be a pair of captured main-belt asteroids, two lobes of what once was a ...

Mars is smaller than ... very different chemical composition to a moon that formed from chunks of early Mars. If the Phobos sample indicates that the moons formed from a collision with Mars, ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Mars is a pretty important place these days, what with space agencies around the world ...