The German-French rover IDEFIX travels to Japan and is expected to arrive there at the end of January. It is part of the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, which will explore both Martian moons ...

Tripartite agreement on cooperation for the MMX mission signed by JAXA, CNES and DLR. As part of the MMX mission, the German-French rover IDEFIX will land on the Martian moon Phobos. The Japanese MMX ...

An artist's interpretation of the event where a single moon orbiting Mars was struck and split into the two moons Phobos and Deimos. Credit: mark garlick Mars may have had a single moon before ...

The MMX Rover is scheduled to touch down in late 2026 or early 2027. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The first rover to explore ...

A question has intrigued astronomers for decades: are the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, captured asteroids or fragments ...

Japan’s space agency has finalized a plan to send a probe to the Martian moons of Phobos and Deimos, and it includes an ambitious lander to collect samples from Phobos to return to Earth. The current ...

The Martian moon Phobos orbits only a few thousand miles above the Red Planet's surface. Its proximity to its planet is one of the reasons astronomers were unable to see the satellite until the late ...

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 ...

Phobos is the larger and innermost of Mars' two moons, and it's a fascinating celestial body. It's small, irregularly shaped, and orbiting just about 6,000 kilometers above the surface of the Red ...