Computer simulations suggest that Mars' puzzling moons, Phobos and Deimos, may have been formed from debris created when a large asteroid wandered dangerously close to the Red Planet. This new model ...

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared Imager ...

A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken stunning bonus images of Mars and its moon Deimos en route to its final ...

Researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology claim that analysis of Mars' composition supports the idea that it was originally formed in the asteroid belt, and then migrated to the inner solar ...

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 ...

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, ...

We often think getting to know Mars will require us to actually get there in person and have a look at the place. While that may be true when it comes to uncovering the mysteries of the planetary ...

Researchers say they have found the remains of a crater left 3.4 billion years ago when an asteroid impacted. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on ...

Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby of Mars, receiving a crucial gravitational slingshot, testing some of its instruments, ...