Mars' moon Phobos may actually be a comet — or at least part of one — that was gravitationally captured by the Red Planet long ago, a new preprint study based on previously unpublished photos ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

Astronomers used a computer to simulate the orbits of both Phobos and Deimos. The moons of Mars — Phobos and Deimos — are two fragments of what was once a much larger Martian satellite that ...

In this interview, Harald Hoffmann, a planetary geologist at the DLR Institute of Planetary Research, reports on the current debate on the formation and future of the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos.

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 ...