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 ...

The Red Planet will be at its closest point to Earth, also known as perigee, on Jan. 12 and will be exactly opposite the sun ...

Each century, Phobos gets about six feet closer to Mars ... fall silent en route, miss orbit around Mars, burn up in the atmosphere, crash on the surface, or die prematurely.

However, Phobos and Deimos have neatly circular orbits aligned with Mars' equatorial plane, which seems more likely if they had formed in orbit around Mars. Another hypothesis is that Phobos and ...

Phobos makes a trip around Mars every eight hours ... the particles to create what they call a plasma torus along the orbit line of the moon. This should theoretically create a magnetic field ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a cameo appearance of the tiny moon Phobos on its trek around the Red Planet. Even today, it is frequently called the "Red Planet" because iron minerals in the ...

Mars currently has two satellite moons – Phobos and Deimos – the twin sons of Ares, the god of war (Mars in Roman mythology) ...

Due to its size and speed, Phobos' transits last around 30 seconds ... providing valuable data on both the moon’s orbit and its impact on Mars. Scientists have noted that Phobos is gradually ...

BEIJING--China says its Tianwen-1 spacecraft has entered a temporary parking orbit around Mars in anticipation of landing a rover on the red planet in the coming months. The China National Space ...