The irregular shapes and orbits of Mars’s two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, have long been a subject of scientific ...

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 ...

Six planets in the solar system have at least one moon. Both Earth and Mars are toward the lower end of the lunar count, as our home planet only has one moon, and Mars has two. But not all moons share ...

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 ...

We often think getting to know Mars will require us to actually get there in person and have a look at the place. While that may be true when it comes to uncovering the mysteries of the planetary ...

Mars is probably smaller than you think. It's just half the size of Earth, with barely a third of its mass. Even the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos are petite, measuring just a few kilometers in ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared Imager ...