Mars' moon Phobos may actually be a comet ... The researchers discovered that Phobos's surface didn't reflect light uniformly. Some regions, like the northeastern rim of the crater, were ...

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a ...

Joe Rogan, conspiracy theorists, and Elon Musk got excited about a "square structure" on Mars, photographed by the Mars ...

Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators ...

Phobos is spiraling toward Mars and will either break up and form a ring around the Red Planet or crash into the surface. Deimos, on the other hand, is spiraling away from Mars and could one day ...

Scientists have long debated what caused the grooves on Phobos. Are they tracks left behind by boulders rolling across the surface after an ancient impact, or signs that Mars’s gravity is ...

Phobos completes one orbit of Mars in just over seven and a half hours at an altitude ... they were formed from ejecta resulting from a powerful impact on the planet's surface, or they formed at the ...

One solution is for Mars colonization missions to use Phobos, the planet's largest moon, as a pit stop since it likely harbors water ice just below its ruddy surface. Probes drilled into Phobos ...

Secondly, it will analyse the surface composition and texture at selected locations ... The Japanese MMX mission targets both moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. The MMX probe will explore both moons ...

Antumbra of Phobos Moves Across Mars As Phobos passed in front of the Sun, its shadow (antumbra) moved rapidly across the Martian surface. NASA officials noted that the shadow’s motion was simul ...