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 ...

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 ...

On a flyby of Mars, the European Space Agency (ESA) captured a rare photo of its second moon - but what do we know about it? It's called Deimos, and is much smaller and more mysterious than Phobos ...

"But as we flew by Mars this gave us more than a thousand images that are absolutely breathtaking." Mars has two moons, named Phobos and Deimos, but because Phobos is closer to Mars, it has been ...

The red planet Mars, named for the Roman god of war, has long been an omen in the night sky. And in its own way, the planet’s rusty red surface tells a story of destruction. Billions of years ...

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of ...

A European spacecraft on a journey to study NASA's asteroid crash site did a quick pop-in of Mars on its way, capturing unprecedented images of Mars' lesser-known moon, Deimos. Mars has two moons ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

How did the moons form and what they are made of? This is the mystery that the international team of scientists wants to solve. Several US missions and the European Mars Express mission, launched in ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant impact on Mars. Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared ...