This new model proposes that Phobos and Deimos resulted from the wreckage of a larger asteroid that wandered too close to Mars and crossed its Roche ... into the two moons. However, Phobos and ...

January’s full moon, the “Wolf Moon,” rose alongside Mars at its brightest, occulting it for a short period as seen from ...

Deimos, the smaller of the two moons, orbits Mars every 30 hours and is less than 10 miles across. Its larger sibling Phobos bears many scars, including craters and deep grooves running across its ...

The moon performed a cosmic ballet with Mars this week.

Curiosity, a car-sized robotic rover featured in Destination: Mars, landed on the red planet in August 2012. As Curiosity makes its way ... took photos of the two small moons eclipsing each ...

Deimos is one of only three moons in the inner solar system, and its ... making-mars-moons-supercomputers-offer-disruptive-new-explanation-2/ Davide Castelvecchi, 'First Up-Close Images of Mars's ...

Mars will seem to disappear behind the full wolf moon Monday for many sky-gazers. Throughout January, also look up to see Venus, Saturn and Jupiter in the night sky.

Beyond Jupiter — 800 million miles from Earth — Saturn and its moons await ... at nearly 36,000 miles per hour. This image of Mars was first created from high-resolution images taken by ...