Artist’s concept of Japan’s Mars Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft, carrying a NASA instrument to study the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos. The mission should contain a sample return component, and ...

Both Phobos and Deimos are observable from the Martian surface. Phobos, larger and closer to Mars than Deimos, exhibits noticeable waxing and waning phases within a single appearance due to its rapid ...

Phobos --- the enigmatic, oddly-shaped Martian moon --- could serve as an eventual pit stop for human missions to the Red Planet. That’s, of course, contingent on future Mars exploration strategies.

Phobos is very close to its planet Mars, but the intimacy of that relationship also means destruction for the moon, NASA says this week. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news ...

The origin of Phobos and Deimos, the two Martian moons, has been a mystery to astronomers. These two bodies are a fraction of the size and mass of the Moon, measuring just 22.7 km (14 mi) and 12.6 km ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Billions of years ago, Mars suffered from numerous big impacts, and the resulting backwash ...

The Martian moon Phobos has a lumpy, nonspherical shape that suggests it may be a captured asteroid. (ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)) The origin of the two small moons of Mars, called Phobos and Deimos ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Mars’ largest moon Phobos may have evidence of ancient life that went extinct on the Red Planet, keeping it in pristine condition for billions of years. Astronomers from the Japan Aerospace ...

Of the four rocky, terrestrial planets, only Mars has more than one moon. The two small bodies that orbit the red planet are both smaller than Earth's moon, and raise a number of questions about the ...

A prolific cybercrime gang behind a series of ransomware attacks is distributing a new form of the file-encrypting malware that combines two well-known and successful variants in a series of attacks ...