Mars has two small, potato-shaped moons, called Phobos and Deimos. These moons are named for two sons of the Greek god of war, Ares, which the Romans called Mars. The names Phobos and Deimos mean ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant impact on Mars.

It's called Deimos, and is much smaller and more mysterious than Phobos, the first moon of Mars. The pictures were taken by the ESA's Hera mission, which is on its way to an asteroid called ...

Deimos is about 15,000 miles from Mars ... will collect detailed measurements of Mars' two moons and land on Phobos, the larger lunar body, to collect a sample that can be returned to Earth ...

On March 12, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera spacecraft captured rare images of Deimos, one of Mars’ two moons, from 621 miles away while en route to the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos.

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, believed to have formed either through a huge impact that created debris that eventually coalesced, or through the capture of passing asteroids. Phobos ...

This mission will collect data from Deimos as well as Mars’ other moon, Phobos, where it will eventually land and collect samples to bring back to Earth. The mission is anticipated for a 2026 ...

The spacecraft captured the Red Planet and its enigmatic moons, Deimos and Phobos, marking its first deep-space imaging operation.

With groups like NASA and the European Space Agency focusing largely on missions to explore Earth’s moon and Mars ... both the Martian moon Deimos as well as Phobos. Visiting the moons from ...

Mars has two moons, named Phobos and Deimos, but because Phobos is closer to Mars, it has been previously imaged by other spacecraft. "For Deimos, we don't have as many images as Phobos ...