ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft's ...

Mars' moon Phobos may actually be a comet — or at least part of one — that was gravitationally captured by the Red Planet long ago, a new preprint study based on previously unpublished photos ...

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 ...

have already provided data and images from Mars orbit that have helped to observe the moons. However, there was no successful attempt to land on Phobos or Deimos to date. Little is known about their ...

Deimos, the smaller of the two moons, orbits Mars every 30 hours and is less than 10 miles across. Its larger sibling Phobos bears many scars, including craters and deep grooves running across its ...

Since Dec. 7, 2024, the red planet has been making its westerly retrograde. But on Monday, that all ends, according to Space.com. Mars will appear to stand still in the night sky before it makes its ...

Technology designed in Dublin will assist a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft called Hera as it navigates a close fly-by ...

The outer moon, Deimos, is about five miles in diameter ... For a closer look they could shuttle to the inner moon, Phobos, which circles Mars only 3,700 miles away. When it came time to return ...

The 'God of War': Mars was named by the ancient Romans for their god of war because its reddish color was reminiscent of blood. Other civilizations also named the planet for this attribute, the ...

A study published in Icarus explores the possibility that Mars’ moons, Phobos and Deimos, formed from asteroid debris torn apart by the planet’s gravitational forces. Researchers ran advanced ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. You’re a spacecraft at Mars. You’ve just reached the epic milestone of ...