Fornasier noted that if Phobos was once a comet, Deimos may have been one as ... spiders' spotted in mysterious 'Inca City' on Mars in new satellite photos Taken by high-resolution cameras onboard ...

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 ...

The Red Planet will be at its closest point to Earth, also known as perigee, on Jan. 12 and will be exactly opposite the sun ...

Computer simulations suggest that Mars' puzzling moons, Phobos and Deimos, may have been formed from debris created when a large asteroid wandered dangerously close to the Red Planet. This new ...

Mars currently has two satellite moons – Phobos and Deimos – the twin sons of Ares, the god of war (Mars in Roman mythology) ...

Mars is probably smaller than you think. It's just half the size of Earth, with barely a third of its mass. Even the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos are petite, measuring just a few kilometers in ...

Astronomers refer to satellites as objects in space ... away by collisions with other space objects. Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Scientists still debate whether these came from ...

The red planet Mars, named for the Roman god of war, has long been an omen in the night sky. And in its own way, the planet’s rusty red surface tells a story of destruction. Billions of years ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

Mars has two small moons and they're called Phobos and Deimos, and those words mean ... So that's bits of rockets, bits of satellites, bits of shuttles, all floating around up there, getting ...