The doomed Martian moon Phobos, which is on a slow death spiral above the Red Planet, may hold some secrets about how Mars was formed. The moon's orbit of Mars — gradually degrading over the eons — ...

The Martian moon Phobos orbits through a stream of charged atoms and molecules that flow off the Red Planet’s atmosphere, new research shows. Many of these charged particles, or ions, of oxygen, ...

Understanding the process could help reveal the moon's strange origins. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The eccentric orbit of ...

Humanity's path to Mars may go through Phobos, one of the Red Planet's two tiny moons. Humanity's path to Mars may go through the Red Planet's tiny moon Phobos. An incremental, multiple-mission ...

Scientists have long debated the cause of the distinctive grooves on the surface of Mars' moon Phobos. One leading theory has it that the lines are signs of structural failure as the tiny body is ...

The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, run from the University of Arizona, has produced a new color stereo view of Phobos, the larger and inner of Mars’ two tiny moons. The HiRISE camera ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Grooves on the surface of Mars’ largest moon suggest it is being destroyed by its parent planet. While scientists have long suggested it is doomed to be destroyed, the ‘extensive system of grooves’ ...

Some of the mysterious grooves on the surface of Mars’ moon Phobos are the result of debris ejected by impacts eventually falling back onto the surface to form linear chains of craters, according to a ...

Artist’s concept of Japan’s Mars Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft, carrying a NASA instrument to study the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos. The mission should contain a sample return component, and ...