Japan’s space agency (JAXA) is sending a mission to travel to Mars which will survey the Red Planet’s two moons, Phobos and Deimos. The spacecraft will explore both moons and collect a sample of ...

Scientists have released the most detailed images and observations of Mars’ moon, Deimos. The images were taken by the UAE Space Agency’s Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) Hope Probe during recent flybys of ...

While there are over 200 moons in our solar system, only three exist around the inner terrestrial planets, and two belong to the planet Mars. These two are Phobos and Deimos, and they are small, ...

Mini moon: two views of the Martian moon Deimos taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. (Courtesy: NASA) A new theory for the mysterious origins of Mars’ two tiny moons Phobos and Deimos has been ...

NASA's Perseverance rover snapped a photo of the sky in the hours just before dawn on March 1, 2025. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech In the hours just before dawn, NASA's Perseverance rover adjusted its ...

The red planet Mars, fourth from Earth’s sun, has two little moons: Phobos and Deimos. Neither is anything like Earth’s moon: small and irregularly shaped, astronomers have long believed that they are ...

Mars and Deimos in a high-resolution composite image captured by the United Arab Emirates' Hope probe Emirates Mars Mission A space probe operated by the United Arab Emirates has taken the most ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took this image of the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, from a distance of about 6,800 kilometers (about 4,200 miles). This illustration provides a comparison for ...

Mars' moon Deimos is still mysterious a century and a half after its discovery. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Deimos is Mars' ...

Both Phobos and Deimos are observable from the Martian surface. Phobos, larger and closer to Mars than Deimos, exhibits noticeable waxing and waning phases within a single appearance due to its rapid ...