It's possible that Mars' moons were originally asteroids that were captured by the planet's gravitational pull. There's also ...

Mars has two small, funky-looking moons with strange orbits, and they may suggest that the red planet once had rings, like some of the larger planets in our solar system. The two lumpy moons ...

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 ...

Phobos, one of Mars’ moons, is getting closer to the planet. According to the model, Phobos will break apart upon reaching the Roche limit and become a set of rings in roughly 70 million years.

Mars' two moons, Phobos and Deimos, are small, irregular, but orbit in the same equatorial plane as the red planet. Although they've long been thought to be captured asteroids, those orbits would ...

The origins of Mars's moons have long puzzled scientists. Two main hypotheses have been proposed: that Phobos and Deimos are ...

An image of the Martian moon Deimos. It's relatively small at some seven miles across. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona A satellite orbiting Mars captured a stunning view of our ...

From New York City, the moon and Mars will be just one-tenth of a degree apart, according to In-the-sky.org. The duo will be visible from 12:10 p.m. EST (1710 GMT) ...

Where did the moons of Mars come from? That’s a question scientists still can’t answer. We know that Earth’s moon was likely formed from a giant impact on our planet about 4.5 billion years ago.