Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, is a subject of fascination for astronomers. Though significantly smaller than Earth, ...

What would it feel like to stand on the tiny moons of Mars,Phobos and Deimos? Explore the surreal experience of visiting Mars ...

See stunning photos of Phobos and Deimos, the small moons of Mars, as seen by spacecraft on and orbiting the Red Planet. Phobos is the largest moon of Mars, with Deimos as a smaller satellite.

Both martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, can be seen from the surface. They even visibly undergo phases like our own Moon.

A new theory introduces the idea that Mars' two moons, Phobos and Deimos, were created after an intense Martian collision.

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 ...

The Martian moons Phobos and Deimos have been photographed in the same frame for the first time.

Deimos is also about 2.5 times farther from Mars than Phobos, making it look like a pebble against the Sun compared to Phobos’ large, potato-shape silhouette.

Based on their results, Bagheri and colleagues conclude that Phobos and Deimos may have both originated from a protomoon – which formed alongside Mars at a roughly synchronous radius, before breaking ...

What’s the big deal about little Phobos and tinier Deimos? A close-up view of Phobos, the larger of Mars’s two moons. It is 17 miles across, and will be visited by a Japanese mission, MMX ...

The red planet Mars, fourth from Earth’s sun, has two little moons: Phobos and Deimos. Neither is anything like Earth’s moon: small and irregularly shaped, astronomers have long believed that ...

Instead of looking like they are made of the same material as asteroids typically are, these new Phobos and Deimos images indicate that the two moons are cut from the same clothe as Mars itself.