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part of one — that was gravitationally captured by the Red Planet long ago, a new preprint study based on previously unpublished photos ...

Pockmarked by thousands of meteorites, this moon was once nearly shattered by a giant impact. While it survived the collision, Phobos remains doomed. The tiny moon is drawing closer to Mars at a ...

While analysing some old unpublished images of Mars' moon Phobos, researchers found something peculiar that might prove our previous understanding of the moon wrong. Phobos, also known as the ...

The MMX space probe from the Japanese space organisation JAXA is set to change this: it will examine the two Martian moons in detail from orbit and collect material samples from Phobos for the first ...

On Sept. 30, NASA's Perseverance rover turned its eyes toward the sky and photographed a solar eclipse from Mars, capturing the tiny moon Phobos crossing the sun's face. When you purchase through ...

The research, which was published in Advances in Space Research, problem is caused by the Sun, which assaults Phobos — and the other Martian moon, Deimos — with a solar wind that it can’t ...

Phobos looks like the pupil of a googly eye against the warm glow of the sun. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover was treated to a "googly eye" solar eclipse as the planet's moon Phobos passed in front ...

Actually, Phobos is the closest orbiting moon in the Solar System, going around the Red Planet in just seven hours. It has many peculiar surface features: one giant crater, a strange chain of ...

Mars is slowly killing its largest moon, NASA has revealed. Phobos is being gradually being tugged towards the Red Planet, a process which will eventually destroy it. Space scientists have ...