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

On January 29, 1989, a Soviet space probe named Phobos 2 arrived in orbit around Mars. This was the last space mission ...

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

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 moon, , looks a lot like an asteroid: It's lumpy, potato-shaped and very small. It has an average radius of just 11 6.8 miles. Scientists have long wondered about the — is it merely a captured ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope does more than just observe the distant cosmos; it also peeks at the nearby objects in our solar system. In a photo shoot involving Mars, Hubble Space Telescope grabbed ...

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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.

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 ...

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 have long debated the cause of the distinctive grooves on the surface of Mars' moon Phobos. One leading theory has it that the lines are signs of structural failure as the tiny body is ...