The 2020 disaster film Horizon Line (streaming now on Peacock) opens on Sara (M3GAN’s Allison Williams) on her way to a friend’s wedding on the island of Mauritius — the ancestral home of the dodo, by ...

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

Earth isn't the only planet experiencing spectacular solar eclipses as moons pass in front of our solar system's sun. Two months before a total solar eclipse is expected to shroud a long swath of ...

Japan’s space agency (JAXA) is sending a mission to travel to Mars which will survey the Red Planet’s two moons, Phobos and Deimos. The spacecraft will explore both moons and collect a sample of ...

Phobos, the tiny innermost moon of Mars, is to come under unprecedented scrutiny after Europe’s mission to Mars goes into orbit around the Red Planet late in 2003. Mars Express is due to pass within ...

A nearly 20-year-old instrument on the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Mars Express orbiter recently received a software upgrade which has enabled it to study the martian moon Phobos in greater detail ...

New studies suggest that our extraterrestrial neighbor, Mars, is treating its own moon as an unfriendly and slowly pulling the satellite apart. The report, which The Planetary Science Journal ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. I never ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Mars is lucky enough to have two confirmed moons, and both have some ...

Images from the recent flyby of Phobos, on 7 March 2010, are released today. The images show Mars’ rocky moon in exquisite detail, with a resolution of just 4.4 metres per pixel. They show the ...

International collaboration finds that two small satellites (Phobos and Deimos) orbiting Mars can also be formed by a giant impact like the origin of our Moon. The research is reported in Nature ...