In 2026, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to launch the Mars Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, aiming to explore ...

Mars itself is a world of puzzlement, particularly when it comes to whether or not the planet is the home of ancient or even present-day life. But put that aside for the moment. Even without the ...

The conventional wisdom about Mars’ small and misshapen moons, Phobos and Deimos, is that they were either created like Earth’s Moon — carved out of the planet by an impact with a huge object — or ...

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 Deimos, ...

Hope probe captured high-resolution image of Mars' moon Deimos. The spacecraft flew "as close as 100km (62 miles)" from the ...

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at its closest point to Earth in its orbit, and Hall had one question on his ...

Six planets in the solar system have at least one moon. Both Earth and Mars are toward the lower end of the lunar count, as our home planet only has one moon, and Mars has two. But not all moons share ...

Mars’ moons could be the remains of an ill-starred asteroid that got too close to the Red Planet. A shredded asteroid origin could help explain mysterious features of the small, odd-shaped moons, ...