Of all the planets visible from Earth, Mars has always felt different. Its soft red glow has caught the eye of sky-watchers ...

A mysterious moon, a vanished Soviet spacecraft, and monolith-like objects standing alone in the Martian dust—what’s really ...

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...

"Studying Phobos’ orbit also allows scientists to refine predictions of when the doomed moon will crash into Mars," according to NASA. Eric Lagatta covers breaking and trending news for USA TODAY.

More study the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos. The mission should contain a sample return component, and after collecting material from Phobos in 2024, should return that component to Earth in ...

Mars has two moons, named Phobos and Deimos after the gods of 'fear' and 'panic' in Greek mythology. Unlike the major moons of our solar system, Phobos and Deimos are tiny, just 16.7 miles (27 ...

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 ...

Phobos has the closest orbit of any known moon to its parent body, circling the red planet at a distance of just 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles), ...

Previously unpublished photos of Mars' moon Phobos hint that the mysterious satellite may actually be a trapped comet — or perhaps just a piece of one, along with its twin moon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

Like Dharma, Phobos exploits open or poorly secured RDP ports to sneak inside networks and execute a ransomware attack, encrypting files and demanding a ransom be paid in bitcoin for returning the ...

Phobos is also bright enough to spot at times during the day. Deimos orbits about four times farther from Mars than Phobos does and appears roughly 2.5′ across ...