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 ...

Artist’s concept of Japan’s Mars Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft, carrying a NASA instrument to study the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos. The mission should contain a sample return component, and ...

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 ...

Of all the moons in our solar system, the Martian moon of Phobos might be the most interesting. It’s not a near-perfect sphere like most of the moons we see, and it almost looks like an overgrown ...

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 oddly-shaped moon of Mars, has been captured in a series of stunning images gliding above the planet’s volcanic ...

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 ...

The Martian moon Phobos has a lumpy, nonspherical shape that suggests it may be a captured asteroid. (ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)) The origin of the two small moons of Mars, called Phobos and Deimos ...

30 million years might seem like a long time to you, but on the timescale that is the lifespan of the universe, it’s a blip. That’s just how long astronomers now believe Mars’ largest moon Phobos has ...

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 ...