In a remarkable moment during its journey toward Jupiter, NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft managed to capture a stunning image of Mars and its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, in one frame. This rare ...

Japan is putting its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft through a series of tests ahead of its launch to Mars next year. MMX is a complex mission to collect samples from the moon Phobos and ...

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at its closest point to Earth in its orbit, and Hall had one question on his ...

Phobos is the larger and innermost of Mars' two moons, and it's a fascinating celestial body. It's small, irregularly shaped, and orbiting just about 6,000 kilometers above the surface of the Red ...

Mars isn't dead. New footage from the Curiosity rover proves its thin atmosphere hosts a spectacular show. Witness clouds of dry ice floating 80 km high, planet swallowing dust storms, and ghostly ...

The moon Phobos has a mysterious origin but a certain expiration date. Phobos, one of Mars' moons, has an uncertain origin, but its surface grooves show that tidal forces are pulling it apart. In time ...

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An incredible photo shows Earth photobombing Mars' moon Phobos. It is the first time ever the two have been captured together from the surface of Mars. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera ...

How did the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, form and evolve orbiting the Red Planet? This is what a recent study published in Icarus hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the ...

This is a full-scale mockup of Russia's Phobos-Grunt. The spacecraft will collect samples of soil on Mar's moon Phobos and to bring the samples back to Earth for detailed study. This image shows ...

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Experts speculate a new Phobos mission could launch by 2030, leveraging advancements in propulsion and AI for safer trajectories. The Phobos-Grunt mission, Russia’s endeavor to explore Mars’ moon ...