When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. After multiple nights of searching in heavy fog, Hall spotted not just one but two moons, which ...

Experts speculate a new Phobos mission could launch by 2030, leveraging advancements in propulsion and AI for safer trajectories. The Phobos-Grunt mission, Russia’s endeavor to explore Mars' moon ...

JAXA’s Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission will now launch in 2026, two years later than previously planned. Credit: JAXA NEW ORLEANS — The launch of a Japanese mission to collect samples from the ...

How did the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, form and evolve orbiting the Red Planet? This is what a recent study published in Icarus hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the ...

Update: The launch date of this mission has been moved to 2026. A piece of Mars’s biggest moon is coming back to Earth. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is sending a spacecraft to Phobos ...

The exploration of the Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, has evolved into a multifaceted endeavour that combines orbital dynamics, surface geology and sample-return missions to unravel the mysteries ...

Previously unpublished photos of Mars' moon Phobos hint that the mysterious satellite may actually be a trapped comet — or perhaps just a piece of one, along with its twin moon Deimos. When you ...