Phobos has a diameter of just under 27 kilometres, and Deimos only 15 kilometres. Telescopes on Earth are therefore not able to reveal much detail about these elusive moons. Both have been observed at ...

The Kennedy Center’s outdoor space exhibit was disrupted when the planet Mars rolled off-campus — and ended up on the highway ...

At some point in the distant past, the red planet gained its two small and irregularly shaped moons, Phobos and Deimos ... and India are actively orbiting Mars or roving across its surface.

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant impact on Mars.

Mars' moon Phobos may actually be a comet — or at least part of one — that was gravitationally captured by the Red Planet long ago, a new preprint study based on previously unpublished photos ...

Mars has two small, potato-shaped moons, called Phobos and Deimos. These moons are named for two sons of the Greek god of war, Ares, which the Romans called Mars. The names Phobos and Deimos mean ...

It's called Deimos, and is much smaller and more mysterious than Phobos, the first moon of Mars. The pictures were taken by the ESA's Hera mission, which is on its way to an asteroid called ...

Searching for answers with the MMX mission Orbiting approximately 23,400 kilometres above ... mission aims to clarify how Mars's moons, Phobos and Deimos, formed and provide insights into planetary ...

It has been orbiting Mars for the past two years regularly flying past Deimos and its big sibling moon Phobos. It used instruments that measure infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths in order to ...

This mission will collect data from Deimos as well as Mars’ other moon, Phobos, where it will eventually land and collect samples to bring back to Earth. The mission is anticipated for a 2026 ...

Deimos is tidally locked, meaning one hemisphere permanently faces Mars. This near side is the one most commonly seen by spacecraft orbiting the planet, or by rovers driving across its surface.