the red planet gained its two small and irregularly shaped moons, Phobos and Deimos. The two lumpy worlds, discovered in 1877, are named for the sons and chariot drivers of the god Mars in Roman ...

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 mission is expected to provide definitive answers about the origins of these enigmatic companions of the Red Planet. The origins of Mars's moons have long puzzled scientists. Two main ...

How did the moons form and what they are made of? This is the mystery that the international team of scientists wants to solve. Several US missions and the European Mars Express mission ... it will ...

Once a year, this planet passes through a celestial beehive typically seen in the night sky during the spring. And it's about ...

moons, asteroids, comets, and even dust and gas. The order of the planets in the solar system, starting nearest the sun and working outward, is the following: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured what’s believed to be the first orbital image of the Curiosity rover ...

Sometime between about 9:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. EST (depending on where you were in North America), the full "Wolf Moon" drifted across Mars, briefly swallowing the Red Planet from the sky.