In 2009, astronaut Buzz Aldrin caused a stir when he suggested we should attempt to visit the monolith on Phobos, the largest ...

A mysterious moon, a vanished Soviet spacecraft, and monolith-like objects standing alone in the Martian dust—what’s really ...

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 ...

In 2009, astronaut Buzz Aldrin caused a stir when he suggested we should attempt to visit the monolith on Phobos, the largest of Mars's two moons, before heading back to our own.

A UFO expert claimed to have spotted a massive alien base on Mars’ natural satellite Phobos. According to the expert, the structure could be the alleged monolith that NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin ...

An image of Phobos from March 23, 2008, taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

These six images from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity show the two moons of Mars moments before (left three) and after (right three) the larger moon, Phobos, occulted Deimos on Aug. 1, 2013.

The curios moon Phobos, captured by the Mars Express Orbiter in 2008. ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum), CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO An asteroid sneeze.

Mars has just two, Deimos and Phobos. According to NASA, Phobos is on track to be pulled apart within 30 to 50 million years, a relative blip on the time scale of the universe.

Mars’ closest moon moves closer to Mars by about six feet every hundred years, and as Phobos gets closer to the planet’s surface, the gravitational pull increases. Soon these stresses will be ...

Orbiting 3,700 miles above the surface of Mars, Phobos is closer to its planet than any other moon in the solar system. That is part of the problem. Mars’ gravity is drawing in Phobos by about 6 ...