On January 29, 1989, a Soviet space probe named Phobos 2 arrived in orbit around Mars. This was the last space mission ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 on Jan. 15. It will be visible all night long because it will rise with the ...

forming rings around Mars out of which Phobos and Deimos could have formed. The theory is attractive because it describes the rings extending as far as Deimos' orbit, which would explain how ...

After a flight time of around one year, MMX will reach Mars and enter its orbit. The eight scientific instruments of the exploration module will then begin mapping and characterising the surfaces of ...

This process involves two icy bodies briefly merging and then separating, leaving Charon in a stable orbit around Pluto ... the possibility that Mars’ moons, Phobos and Deimos, formed from ...

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 ...