Two years into one of NASA’s most ambitious missions, the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter continue to ...

The Perseverance Mars rover's Mastcam-Z camera the Martian moon Phobos transit the Sun. See real-time and time-lapsed views ...

"Studying Phobos’ orbit also allows scientists to refine predictions of when the doomed moon will crash into Mars," according to NASA. Eric Lagatta covers breaking and trending news for USA TODAY.

It's possible that Mars' moons were originally asteroids that were captured by the planet's gravitational pull. There's also ...

More study the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos. The mission should contain a sample return component, and after collecting material from Phobos in 2024, should return that component to Earth in ...

Like Dharma, Phobos exploits open or poorly secured RDP ports to sneak inside networks and execute a ransomware attack, encrypting files and demanding a ransom be paid in bitcoin for returning the ...

What’s the big deal about little Phobos and tinier Deimos? A close-up view of Phobos, the larger of Mars’s two moons. It is 17 miles across, and will be visited by a Japanese mission, MMX ...

Phobos has the closest orbit of any known moon to its parent body, circling the red planet at a distance of just 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles), ...

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a host of other puzzles connected to the solar system's deep past ...

Efforts to reach the Martian moon Phobos have long been outshined by missions to the red planet itself. Now, scientists in Russia, Canada and the U.S. are preparing their own missions to the ...

Phobos is also bright enough to spot at times during the day. Deimos orbits about four times farther from Mars than Phobos does and appears roughly 2.5′ across ...

Phobos-Grunt (Phobos is one of Mars' two moons; Grunt is Russian for ground) had an ambitious mission -- to orbit Mars, land on Phobos, scoop up a soil sample, and bring it home for study.