Mars' moon Phobos may actually be a comet — or at least part of one — that was gravitationally captured by the Red Planet long ago, a new preprint study based on previously unpublished photos ...

An incredible photo shows Earth photobombing Mars' moon Phobos ... to capture the view of Earth setting while Phobos is rising. The image shows Phobos on the left and Earth on the right.

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 ...

It's called Deimos, and is much smaller and more mysterious than Phobos, the first moon of Mars. The pictures were taken by the ESA's Hera mission, which is on its way to an asteroid called ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant impact on Mars.

Space probe Hera passed Mars while on its way to the Didymos ... "For Deimos, we don't have as many images as Phobos, so all opportunities to see Deimos are high value," Hera's prinicpal ...

Hera, European Space Agency’s (ESA) flagship planetary defense mission that launched in October 2024, took images of Mars ... Deimos as well as Mars’ other moon, Phobos, where it will ...