Egyptians called it "Her Desher," which means "the red one." Mars takes 687 days, or 1.8 years, to orbit the sun. It has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. This story was updated to add new information.

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express orbiter captured stunning views of a winter wonderland on Mars, but this isn’t ...

Computer simulations suggest that Mars' puzzling moons, Phobos and Deimos, may have been formed from debris created when a large asteroid wandered dangerously close to the Red Planet. This new ...

would involve capturing Perseus in a co-orbit with Mars and Phobos. This would allow the CubeSat to pass by the moon every day, with about a 6-minute encounter time. This would allow Perseus to ...

Discover when and how to view the rare lunar occultation of Mars on January 13, 2025, including optimal viewing times across ...

Mars currently has two satellite moons – Phobos and Deimos – the twin sons of Ares, the god of war (Mars in Roman mythology) ...

Mars is often considered to be the planet most similar to the Earth. Earth however, is capable of supporting life, Mars on ...

In January 2012, concerns arose over the Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft re-entering Earth’s atmosphere near Watford after a catastrophic ...

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 ...

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 ...

have already provided data and images from Mars orbit that have helped to observe the moons. However, there was no successful attempt to land on Phobos or Deimos to date. Little is known about their ...

Yet water is dense and expensive to launch from Earth into space. One solution is for Mars colonization missions to use Phobos, the planet's largest moon, as a pit stop since it likely harbors ...