Embark on an interplanetary journey with us as we explore the mysterious moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos! From their unusual characteristics to the perplexing question of their origin, join us on a ...

Though little is known about Deimos, another European spacecraft recently captured unprecedented views of the moon's far side ...

The red planet Mars, fourth from Earth's sun, has two little moons: Phobos and Deimos. Neither is anything like Earth's moon: small and irregularly shaped, astronomers have long believed that ...

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 ...

while Deimos will peak at magnitude –5. Phobos is so close to Mars and orbits so quickly — roughly once every seven hours and 39 minutes, or about three times per martian day — that it will ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Mars has been a hotbed for space exploration over the past several decades. However ...

The two small moons of Mars, Phobos (about 22km in diameter) and Deimos (about 13km in diameter), have been puzzling scientists for decades, with their origin remaining a matter of debate.

created a disk around Mars that eventually coalesced to form Phobos and Deimos. But now a third theory comes into play, based on studies conducted with the help of several supercomputer simulations.

Japan’s space agency (JAXA) is sending a mission to travel to Mars which will survey the Red Planet’s two moons, Phobos and Deimos. The spacecraft will explore both moons and collect a sample of ...

As per the recent study, Mars’ moons (Phobos and Deimos), may have originated from debris left behind after an asteroid was torn apart by the planet’s gravity. Published in Icarus, the ...

Where most moons are big round orbs, Mars’ Phobos and Deimos are small lumpy potatoes. There are two main ideas for how the moons formed. One is that the moons actually were asteroids that were ...