Figuring out exactly how Phobos was born is one of the aims of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, slated to launch in 2026. Sonia Fornasier ...

With the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, researchers hope to find an answer. Phobos completes one orbit of Mars in just over seven and a half hours at an altitude of approximately 6000 ...

The MMX space probe from the Japanese space organisation JAXA is set to change this: it will examine the two Martian moons in detail from orbit and collect material samples from Phobos for the first ...

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or MMX, intends to solve some of those enduring riddles. The mission, expected to launch in 2026, will closely observe both moons before landing on Phobos, retrieving a sample from that moon and ...

MMX will solve a riddle that planetary astronomers have wrestled with for decades — are Phobos and Deimos captured asteroids, or were they produced during an impact with Mars? There's even a ...

The main MMX spacecraft aims to grab 0.35 ounces (10 grams) of Phobos' material in 2029. It will then send the precious cargo towards Earth; arrival is expected to occur in 2031. IDEFIX will play ...

Phobos looks like the pupil of a googly eye against the warm glow of the sun. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover was treated to a "googly eye" solar eclipse as the planet's moon Phobos passed in front ...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission is on its way toward Mars, where it will get a gravity assist before going on to its asteroid target.