Also, the researchers found that Phobos's surface was porous, like sand. This led the team to suggest the moon's surface may be cloaked by a thick dust layer with grooved particles, whose shadows ...

After a square structure found on the surface of Mars went viral on social media, internet users brought up another Martian ...

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a host of other puzzles connected to the solar system's deep past ...

Deimos and its sibling moon Phobos have different fates. Phobos is spiraling toward Mars and will either break up and form a ring around the Red Planet or crash into the surface. Deimos ...

The Stickney Crater is about 9.7 kilometers (6 miles) wide, taking up around half of the moon's surface, formed during an impact event in Phobos's past. The event offers a plausible mechanism for ...

Phobos completes one orbit of Mars in just over seven and a half hours at an altitude of approximately 6000 kilometres. Thus, the moon moves around the planet ... from a powerful impact on the ...

The radiometer miniRAD developed by DLR will measure the surface radiation of the Martian moon Phobos in order to determine the surface temperature and the thermophysical properties of the surface. In ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a cameo appearance of the tiny moon Phobos on its trek around the Red Planet. This composite image, from NASA Galileo and Mars Global Survey orbiters, of Earth ...