Both Phobos and Deimos are observable from the Martian surface. Phobos, larger and closer to Mars than Deimos, exhibits noticeable waxing and waning phases within a single appearance due to its rapid ...

Artist’s concept of Japan’s Mars Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft, carrying a NASA instrument to study the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos. The mission should contain a sample return component, and ...

NASA recently announced that its Mars Odyssey orbiter took a tasty snapshot of the Martian moon Phobos using its infrared camera. Since 2001, Odyssey has been dutifully orbiting the Red Planet. Billed ...

The Perseverance Mars rover's Mastcam-Z camera the Martian moon Phobos transit the Sun. See real-time and time-lapsed views ...

A recent discovery suggests Mars may have once had a much larger moon, which could have caused tides in a lake that once ...

The Martian moon Phobos has a lumpy, nonspherical shape that suggests it may be a captured asteroid. (ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)) The origin of the two small moons of Mars, called Phobos and Deimos ...

Phobos --- the enigmatic, oddly-shaped Martian moon --- could serve as an eventual pit stop for human missions to the Red Planet. That’s, of course, contingent on future Mars exploration strategies.

Phobos is very close to its planet Mars, but the intimacy of that relationship also means destruction for the moon, NASA says this week. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news ...

Scientists now have firm indications that the martian satellite Phobos formed relatively near its current location via re-accretion of material blasted into Mars’ orbit by some catastrophic event. Two ...

While a lot of attention has been focused on Mars thanks to the rovers that are heading out there in 2020, the Red Planet's tiny moon Phobos has been relatively overlooked. Recently, though, NASA ...

We've been studying Mars for decades, and there are several satellites in orbit of the Red Planet right now, constantly sending back data from their telescopes and sensors. These satellites have ...