The Red Planet beckons us toward it, and the day draws closer when humans will walk on its dusty surface, and the moons of Mars, Phobos & Deimos, may be our gateway to that future.

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 ...

On January 29, 1989, a Soviet space probe named Phobos 2 arrived in orbit around Mars. This was the last space mission ...

Deimos is Mars' outer moon. It's a tiny, irregularly shaped moon and smaller than Mars' other moon, Phobos. Despite being unspectacular, Deimos remains a fascinating mystery. Deimos is one of only ...

Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators ...

On January 16 Mars shone at its brightest until 2027 as it was in opposition, which means it was positioned directly opposite ...

By imaging the dunes, scientists can figure out how much CO2 frost forms on the dunes during the Martian winter. When temperatures grow warmer in the spring, the frost sublimates, transitioning from a ...

Mars has two small moons, Phobos and Deimos. Phobos is gradually spiralling inward towards Mars and is expected to crash into the planet within 40 million years, potentially forming a ring system ...

Unless any potential dog-sized aliens living on Mars – struggling with the "hinge" stage of technological development – close ...

Sea-based launches are hitting their stride. That could lead to a lot more space missions with a lot less red tape.

"When people find out about that they're going to say 'who put that there?'," Buzz Aldrin once said of the monolith.