Mars' moon Phobos may actually be a comet — or at least ... this capture process have not been able to replicate the pair's near-circular paths around Mars. Another hypothesis suggests that ...

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 ...

Mars' snow is made of carbon dioxide ice, not water ice. During the Martian winter, temperatures can drop to as low as minus ...

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 European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express orbiter captured stunning views of a winter wonderland on Mars, but this isn’t ...

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 ...

But the cosmos teems with invisible, high-energy radiation — particles traveling near light-speed ... One solution is for Mars colonization missions to use Phobos, the planet's largest moon ...

In January 2012, concerns arose over the Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft re-entering Earth’s atmosphere near Watford after a catastrophic ...