Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, is a subject of fascination for astronomers. Though significantly smaller than Earth, ...

What would it feel like to stand on the tiny moons of Mars,Phobos and Deimos? Explore the surreal experience of visiting Mars ...

Mars is a rather petite planet, having only about 15% the mass of Earth and a little more than half the diameter. ... And Deimos isn’t made of the right stuff to be a D-type asteroid.

Deimos is tidally locked with Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet, so probes near Mars see only one side of the small moon, too — that is, until Hope arrived on the scene.

New high-resolution images of tiny Deimos taken by an Emirati orbiter suggest that it may not be the captured asteroid that ... and orbits closer to the red planet at an altitude of about 3,700 ...

Composite image of Mars’ moon Deimos as it orbits the planet taken by the Hope probe. Image: Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre For more than two years, the UAE’s Hope probe has been orbiting ...

Deimos, the smaller of Mars’s two moons, may be more like its planet than we realize. New, high-resolution views of the tiny moon were recently captured by a United Arab Emirates spacecraft ...

Amal will continue to sweep past Deimos this year, but not as closely as the March 10 encounter, according to al-Matroushi. NASA's Viking 2 came within 19 miles (30 kilometers) of Deimos in 1977.

A European spacecraft on a journey to study NASA's asteroid crash site did a quick pop-in of Mars on its way, capturing unprecedented images of Mars' lesser-known moon, Deimos.. Mars has two moons ...

Amal will continue to sweep past Deimos this year, but not as close as the March 10 encounter, according to al-Matroushi. NASA's Viking 2 came within 19 miles (30 kilometers) of Deimos in 1977.

Mars' moon Deimos silhouetted against the red planet, which appears blue from an infrared image, as captured by ESA’s Hera spacecraft. Photo / AFP On the way to investigate the scene of a ...

The latest update from the European Space Agency’s long serving Mars Express spacecraft shows the Martian moon Deimos passing in front of Jupiter and its Moons, creating an eclipse of the ...