The rise of AI scientists, missions to explore the moons of Earth and Mars and a massive ocean-floor drill are among the ...

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...

Mars looks quiet today, but new research suggests the planet’s surface still carries the rhythm of a vanished companion. Sediment patterns in an ancient lake bed point to regular rises and falls in ...

Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times ...

Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly ...

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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 ...

At night, the sky on Mars looks dark and full of stars, even more than on Earth. The air is thin, so stars look clearer and brighter. Mars has two small moons—Phobos and Deimos. Phobos moves quickly ...

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 ...