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part of one — that was gravitationally captured by the Red Planet long ago, a new preprint study based on previously unpublished photos ...

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

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

the images are real photographs taken by a NASA probe visiting an alien world. They are not new either, with the Mars monolith being captured in 2008, and the Phobos monolith being photographed ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

Phobos and Deimos – these names from Greek mythology were ... The resulting rocky debris will probably form a temporary ring around Mars. The first close-up images of the martian moons were sent to ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometres from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometres an hour. It ...