Embark on an interplanetary journey with us as we explore the mysterious moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos! From their unusual characteristics to the perplexing question of their origin, join us on a ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars's two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m.

Deimos, the smaller of the two moons, orbits Mars every 30 hours and is less than 10 miles across. Its larger sibling Phobos bears many scars, including craters and deep grooves running across its ...

The BBC's Sky at Night Magazine reports that, should we ever get to stargaze on Mars, we'd see two moons - Phobos and Deimos - instead of just one. We wouldn't see as many satellites either, making it ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Mars has been a hotbed for space exploration over the past several decades. However ...

A recent video created from images captured by Curiosity shows clouds tinted red and green flowing though the sky over Mars. Captured using the rover's Mastcam instrument on January 17, 2025, the ...

A LOST Martian ocean may be hiding beneath the red planet’s surface. Today Mars is a cold and dry desert – but it may have ...

Curiosity was in the perfect position to observe solar eclipses caused by two of Mars’ moons. Both Phobos and Deimos were spotted transiting the Sun from the surface of the planet, and while ...