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

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Previously unpublished photos of Mars' moon Phobos hint that the mysterious satellite may actually be a trapped comet — or perhaps just a piece of one, along with its twin moon Deimos. When you ...

New studies suggest that our extraterrestrial neighbor, Mars, is treating its own moon as an unfriendly and slowly pulling the satellite apart. The report, which The Planetary Science Journal ...

Europe's Mars Express spacecraft has peered deeper into the subsurface of the Martian moon Phobos than ever before, finding hints of unknown structures that could be clues as to the moon's origin.

The origin of Phobos and Deimos, the two Martian moons, has been a mystery to astronomers. These two bodies are a fraction of the size and mass of the Moon, measuring just 22.7 km (14 mi) and 12.6 km ...

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New research has been published that shows Phobos, one of the moons orbiting Mars, circles the planet through a stream of charged atoms and molecules from the Martian atmosphere. NASA says many of ...

Six images of the Martian moon Phobos captured by NASA's Odyssey spacecraft. Three new images were released this month, giving scientists a fuller picture of Phobos' surface as it waxes and wanes.

New images of the Martian moon Phobos give scientists insight into the physical properties of the moon and its composition. Christopher Edwards, assistant professor in NAU's Department of Astronomy ...

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 ...

New images of one of Mars' moons show a sweet surprise: It looks like candy. The moon, Phobos, shines like a rainbow-colored jawbreaker in the images, which NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft took in ...