However, in March 2023, the Emirates Mars Mission, launched by the United Arab Emirates, made a close encounter of Deimos and took the best-ever high-resolution close-up images of the small moon.

New research proposes that Mars’ moons, Phobos and Deimos, could have originated from ... that Mars once had vast bodies of water. Studying images and radar data from Utopia Planitia, the ...

Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon.  How ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars ... for how the Red Planet ended up with small Phobos and tiny Deimos. President-elect Donald Trump joined Elon Musk in Texas and watched ...

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a ...

A NASA satellite has spotted frozen "kidney beans" on Mars' sand dunes trapped in place until springtime. Photographing them ...

New research shows that meteoroid impacts on Mars generate seismic signals that travel much deeper than previously thought, ...

Using artificial intelligence, scientists have discovered a crater from a meteoroid that they say shook material as deep as ...

Egyptians called it "Her Desher," which means "the red one." Mars takes 687 days, or 1.8 years, to orbit the sun. It has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. This story was updated to add new information.

Mars can be as far away from Earth as 400 million km. To make trips to the Red Planet more frequent and affordable for science and exploration, European engineers came up with a mission concept for a ...