The night sky is home to many celestial features named after creatures from Earth’s oceans. Among the stars, you’ll find ...

Two years into one of NASA’s most ambitious missions, the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter continue to ...

What would it feel like to stand on the tiny moons of Mars,Phobos and Deimos? Explore the surreal experience of visiting Mars’ two small, mysterious moons. Despite their tiny size,just 22 km for ...

It's possible that Mars' moons were originally asteroids that were captured by the planet's gravitational pull. There's also a theory that the two moons were created after a large object collided with ...

Mars has two moons named Phobos and Deimos. They're both named after the sons of Ares, the Greek god of war. The Roman god of war, of course, is Mars. Phobos means fear, and Deimos represents dread.

On a flyby of Mars, the European Space Agency (ESA) captured a rare photo of its second moon - but what do we know about it? It's called Deimos, and is much smaller and more mysterious than Phobos ...

Europe's HERA mission has taken a good look at Mars and its moon Deimos on its way to explore the aftermath of the DART impact in the Didymos–Dimorphos asteroid system.

European spacecraft Hera whizzed past Mars on Wednesday, and snapped an unprecedented view of Deimos, its lesser-known of two moons.

How did the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, form and evolve orbiting the Red Planet? This is what a recent study published in Icarus hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the ...

NASA shared timelapses on X of Mars' two moons completely separate transits of the sun in preparation for today's North American total solar eclipse.

How Mars got its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, is a bit of a mystery. They are small, 27 and 15 kilometres across respectively, and both orbit around the planet’s equator.