A year later, in August 2027, parts of the world will experience the longest period of totality for a century, lasting six ...

Conventionally, the moon is thought to have formed during one big impact, but a three-impact model might make more sense ...

The Red Planet beckons us toward it, and the day draws closer when humans will walk on its dusty surface, and the moons of Mars, Phobos & Deimos, may be our gateway to that future.

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Phobos is the larger and innermost of Mars' two moons, and it's a fascinating celestial body. It's small, irregularly shaped, and orbiting just about 6,000 kilometers above the surface of the Red ...

Experts speculate a new Phobos mission could launch by 2030, leveraging advancements in propulsion and AI for safer trajectories. The Phobos-Grunt mission, Russia’s endeavor to explore Mars’ moon ...

A 2008 photo of Phobos in false color taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2008. Credit: NASA In the first volume of his Mars trilogy Red Mars, science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson has ...

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at its closest point to Earth in its orbit, and Hall had one question on his ...

Japan is putting its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft through a series of tests ahead of its launch to Mars next year. MMX is a complex mission to collect samples from the moon Phobos and ...

NASA's Perseverance rover snapped a photo of the sky in the hours just before dawn on March 1, 2025. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech In the hours just before dawn, NASA's Perseverance rover adjusted its ...

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