Earth isn't the only planet experiencing spectacular solar eclipses as moons pass in front of our solar system's sun. Two months before a total solar eclipse is expected to shroud a long swath of ...

Of all the moons in our solar system, the Martian moon of Phobos might be the most interesting. It's not a near-perfect sphere like most of the moons we see, and it almost looks like an overgrown ...

A rare movie of the Martian moon Phobos has been captured by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft. The moon is set to be the target of an international mission to survey the Red ...

Experts speculate a new Phobos mission could launch by 2030, leveraging advancements in propulsion and AI for safer trajectories. The Phobos-Grunt mission, Russia’s endeavor to explore Mars' moon ...

Phobos is the larger and innermost of Mars' two moons, and it's a fascinating celestial body. It's small, irregularly shaped, and orbiting just about 6,000 kilometers above the surface of the Red ...

30 million years might seem like a long time to you, but on the timescale that is the lifespan of the universe, it’s a blip. That’s just how long astronomers now believe Mars’ largest moon Phobos has ...

An artist's interpretation of the event where a single moon orbiting Mars was struck and split into the two moons Phobos and Deimos. Credit: mark garlick Mars may have had a single moon before ...

Phobos is very close to its planet Mars, but the intimacy of that relationship also means destruction for the moon, NASA says this week. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news ...