Phobos, the oddly-shaped moon of Mars, has been captured in a series of stunning images gliding above the planet’s volcanic ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will be launching the Martian Moons eXploration mission next year, which should ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a stunning new pair of images showing Mars’ inner moon Phobos crossing the face of the Red Planet, processed and shared by image specialist Andrea Luck.

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 ...

Stretch marks across the surface of Phobos could indicate the Mars moon is crumbling away. The shallow grooves that run across Phobos have baffled scientists for years, and on Tuesday researchers with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Phobos appears silhouetted against Mars between the colossal Tharsis volcanic province and the canyoned region spanning Noctis Labyrinthus and Valles Marineris.

The ESA spacecraft Mars Express took this image of Phobos on March 7, 2010. This image has been enhanced for seeing features in the less-illuminated part of the moon. Breaking space news, the latest ...

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 ...