See the Moon meet Mars and Jupiter this week ...

Mars pairs up with a waning crescent moon before spending three mornings crossing the Beehive star cluster in a beautiful predawn sky show.

Mars' moons are easily visible at night from the surface of the Red Planet. Phobos – the nearer, larger, and brighter of the two – would be obviously non-round. A sharp-eyed observer would be able to ...

Decades ago, a NASA spacecraft swooped past Mars’ smaller moon, Deimos, revealing a smooth, dust-strewn world covered in a thick layer of regolith. Since then, scientists have wondered how the Martian ...

Friday, October 9A few hours after sunset, turn toward the north to find the familiar W shape of Cassiopeia on its side, looking more like the number 3. To the upper left of this numeral is the target ...

Searching for clues on Phobos and Deimos. Damond Benningfield The Mars Moons eXploration spacecraft will fire its thrusters to maneuver into orbit around Mars (depicted in this digital art). JAXA Mars ...

Mars has two moons, which appear rather misshapen compared with other planetary satellites. The moons are named Phobos and Deimos. The two moons are named after the ...

Japanese scientists are readying a mission to Mars' moons to retrieve samples that may unlock the origins of the solar system and life on Earth, although a rival Chinese mission aims to make it back ...

Mars’ moons are easily visible at night from the surface of the Red Planet. Phobos – the nearer, larger, and brighter of the two – would be obviously non-round. A sharp-eyed observer would be able to ...