Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a ...

Joe Rogan, conspiracy theorists, and Elon Musk got excited about a "square structure" on Mars, photographed by the Mars ...

Figuring out exactly how Phobos was born is one of the aims of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, slated to launch in 2026. Sonia Fornasier ...

At its widest point, Phobos has a diameter of just under 27 kilometres, and Deimos only 15 kilometres. Telescopes on Earth are therefore not able to reveal much detail about these elusive moons. Both ...

which would see a spacecraft traveling to the Martian moon Phobos, has been delayed by two years. The Martian Moons eXploration mission (MMX) was originally slated to launch sometime this year.

Several US missions and the European Mars Express mission, launched in 2003, have already provided data and images from Mars orbit that have helped to observe the moons. However, there was no ...

This model also means that Deimos and Phobos could be much younger than Mars. Historically, Mars' moons have been ignored by space missions. However, in March 2023, the Emirates Mars Mission ...