Phobos, the oddly-shaped moon of Mars, has been captured in a series of stunning images gliding above the planet’s volcanic ...

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at its closest point to Earth in its orbit, and Hall had one question on his ...

Even Mars rovers like to chase solar eclipses. photo of the yellow-orange sun being partially eclipse by the potato-shaped mars moon phobos Measuring roughly 17 miles by 14 miles by 11 miles (27 by 22 ...

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of Deimos, ...

A NASA rover captured images of a Martian eclipse that resembled a googly-eye peering down at the red planet. The space agency released photos and video Wednesday that show the Martian moon Phobos ...

"It's exciting to explore a new option for the making of Phobos and Deimos." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Computer simulations ...

Once in a while, you might look up and marvel at magnificent views of our moon, its surface dramatically lit by our sun’s light. But have you ever paused to wonder what other moons might look like ...

The moon and Mars will share a close approach in the night sky tonight (Nov. 20), coming close enough together for a nice pairing for the naked eye or binoculars. As seen from the United States, the ...

The full moon will pass in front of the planet Mars on Monday night, Jan. 13. For the Duluth region it will cover the planet for just over an hour from 8:13 to 9:12 p.m. local time. Earlier in the ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...