An incredible photo shows Earth photobombing Mars' moon Phobos. It is the first time ever the two have been captured together from the surface of Mars. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast ...

Another hypothesis is that Phobos and Deimos formed very much like Earth's moon did — that an impact on the surface of Mars threw debris into orbit that eventually coalesced into the two moons.

Despite its dry, dusty surface and thinner atmosphere, Mars may have more in common with Earth than scientists previously ...

Scientists have long debated what caused the grooves on Phobos. Are they tracks left behind by boulders rolling across the surface after an ancient impact, or signs that Mars’s gravity is ...

Phobos completes one orbit of Mars in just over seven and a half hours at an altitude ... they were formed from ejecta resulting from a powerful impact on the planet's surface, or they formed at the ...

Secondly, it will analyse the surface composition and texture at selected locations ... The Japanese MMX mission targets both moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. The MMX probe will explore both moons ...

The MRO has also kept an eye on other spacecraft that are exploring Mars from the surface. The orbiter has ... photos of the red planet's moons, Phobos and Deimos, giving people on Earth a sense ...

By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is ...

The pictures depict the Tharsis region of Mars, known for its colossal volcanoes like Olympus Mons, along with Phobos ... providing insights into Mars' surface and atmosphere.

Curiosity rover is hunting for microbial life on Mars. NASA reconnaissance orbiter snapped its first-ever image of Curiosity ...

Our team found a way to measure the internal crystal structure of these minerals directly in the rock, which had thought to be impossible on the surface of Mars." The team adapted a new analytical ...