Mars has two moons named Phobos and Deimos. They're both named after the sons of Ares, the Greek god of war. The Roman god of war, of course, is Mars. Phobos means fear, and Deimos represents dread.

Europe's HERA mission has taken a good look at Mars and its moon Deimos on its way to explore the aftermath of the DART impact in the Didymos–Dimorphos asteroid system.

The Red Planet beckons us toward it, and the day draws closer when humans will walk on its dusty surface, and the moons of Mars, Phobos & Deimos, may be our gateway to that future. Daytona 500 ...

If Deimos and Phobos formed from debris resulting from an asteroid collision on Mars, they must be younger than the Red Planet, which is 4.5 billion years old, but by how much is still unclear.

Mars moons Phobos and Deimos could be debris from a shredded asteroid, suggests study This groundbreaking research offers fresh insights into the moons' unusual features, including their irregular ...

The notion that Phobos and Deimos may be captured asteroids has long come up against one major problem: Their orbits are too circular, and too neatly aligned around Mars’s equator. Asteroids ...

Phobos is one of two Martian moons, the other being Deimos. Phobos is only about 14 miles across, while its sibling is even smaller at 7.5 miles. Earth's moon, on the other hand, has a diameter of ...

1 Introduction Among the two natural satellites of Mars, Deimos is the smaller one and is further from Mars than Phobos. Traces of the formation and evolution processes on the surface of Mars are not ...

How Mars' moons were formed? Phobos and Deimos are the two moons of Mars. Scientists have yet to conclude whether these were asteroids that came close to Mars and were captured by its gravitational ...

Origins and Future of Phobos Phobos was formerly a comet from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, according to recent research of Phobos' reflective, craggy surface. Deimos and Phobos both ...