Mars is probably smaller than you think. It's just half the size of Earth, with barely a third of its mass. Even the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos are petite, measuring just a few kilometers in ...

Phobos and Deimos – these names from Greek mythology were given to ... The asteroid moons could perhaps even originate from beyond the orbit of Neptune. Arguments against this model include the fact ...

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

This new model proposes that Phobos and Deimos resulted from the wreckage of a larger asteroid that wandered too close to Mars and crossed its Roche limit — the distance at which gravitational ...

But Phobos and Deimos orbit in an almost circular way around ... It allowed the researchers to model a space phenomena known as tidal forces which states that every celestial body exerts some ...

This mission will collect data from Deimos as well as Mars’ other moon, Phobos, where it will eventually land and collect samples to bring back to Earth. The mission is anticipated for a 2026 ...