On March 27, 1989, the Soviet Union's Phobos 2 mission to Mars' moons ended in failure. But the whole mission was definitely ...

Elon Musk announced that SpaceX's Starship would launch for Mars in late 2026, carrying Tesla's Optimus robot. Human landings could begin by 2029 or 2031. While Musk prioritises Mars colonisation, US ...

Unlike Phobos, which is predicted to crash into Mars in a few million years, Deimos maintains a stable orbit. Scientists have long debated whether it is a captured asteroid or a remnant of an ...

While Mars’ larger moon, Phobos, has been extensively studied, Deimos remains an enigma. That’s why Hera’s flyby was a golden opportunity for planetary scientists. Austrian geophysicist Stefan Ulamec ...

The lumpy, 12.5 kilometre-wide moon is the smaller and less well-known of the two moons of Mars. Exactly how Deimos and the bigger Phobos were formed remains a matter of debate. Some scientists ...

In Greek mythology, Deimos is one of the sons ... One is that Deimos, and its brother Phobos, were asteroids that got caught in the gravitational pull of Mars, and have been stuck there since.

An asteroid-chasing spacecraft just swung past Mars on Wednesday. As it zipped by, it took hundreds of shots of the Red Planet, as well as several snaps of Deimos, one of the two small Martian moons.

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to rovers on the Martian surface. The only way to see Deimos’ far side up ...

ESA activated three instruments on Hera and imaged the surface of Mars and in the bargain snapped its moon Deimos, astonishingly sailing past across the face of the Red Planet. Hera was launched on 7 ...

Hera used its trio of instruments to hone in on Mars and one of its small moons – the first object photographed by its cameras beyond Earth. The ESA said Hera took the photographs of Deimos from just ...

The lumpy, 12.5km-wide moon is the smaller and less-well-known of the two moons of Mars. Exactly how Deimos and the bigger Phobos were formed remains a matter of debate. Some scientists believe ...

"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 ...