The long shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars. Orbiting a mere 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) ...

Efforts to reach the Martian moon Phobos have long been outshined by missions to the red planet itself. Now, scientists in Russia, Canada and the U.S. are preparing their own missions to the largest ...

Scientists now have firm indications that the Martian satellite Phobos formed relatively near its current location via re-accretion of material blasted into Mars' orbit by some catastrophic event. Two ...

Russia is set to launch a robotic spacecraft to the Mars moon Phobos today (Nov. 8), marking the nation's first attempt at an interplanetary mission in 15 years. The Phobos-Grunt mission is slated to ...

Japan’s space agency (JAXA) is sending a mission to travel to Mars which will survey the Red Planet’s two moons, Phobos and Deimos. The spacecraft will explore both moons and collect a sample of ...

No one knows if there is life on Mars, but if all goes well with a Russian science mission later this year, there will be life on the Martian moon Phobos - for a short time anyway. An assortment of ...

NASA's Perseverance rover captured a solar eclipse on Mars. In this case it was the moon Phobos completing a transit of the ...

The moons of Mars are garnering increased attention, not only because they could provide a view of the solar system's past ...

The Phobos-1 well drilled in Block 39 in the Sigsbee Escarpment area struck around 250 feet of high-quality oil pay in Lower Tertiary-aged reservoirs, the US independent said in a statement. The ...

Phobos 2 was a Soviet probe sent to study Mars and its moons. It carried many scientific instruments to gather data. Phobos 2 reached Mars but lost contact before completing its mission. A computer ...