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 ...

Mars' moon Phobos may actually be a comet ... For years, researchers have puzzled over the origins of Phobos and its twin, Deimos. Some have theorized that the moons are former asteroids ...

Mars has two moons, named Phobos and Deimos ... flyby was that the side of Deimos that was imaged. Deimos is tidally locked ...

It's called Deimos, and is much smaller and more mysterious than Phobos, the first moon of Mars. The pictures were taken by the ESA's Hera mission, which is on its way to an asteroid called ...

It has been orbiting Mars for the past two years regularly flying past Deimos and its big sibling moon Phobos. It used instruments that measure infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths in order to ...

The eight scientific instruments of the exploration module will then begin mapping and characterising the surfaces of Phobos and Deimos. The rover is scheduled to land on Phobos in 2029. The rover ...

As it zipped by, it took hundreds of shots of the Red Planet, as well as several snaps of Deimos ... which may include shots of Phobos, the planet’s other moon. As with any planetary flyby ...

A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken stunning bonus images of Mars and its moon Deimos en route to its final ...