Phobos is already within Mars' Roche Limit. This is the region where the gravity of a planet can tear apart a moon or another small body. If Phobos were liquid, it would already have disintegrated.

Phobos is one of the two moons that revolve around Mars. It's a lumpy, crater-filled pile of rubble that measures only 10 by 14 by 11 miles (17 by 22 by 18 km). Phobos also orbits closer to Mars than ...

The long shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars. Orbiting a mere 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) ...

The Martian moon Phobos has a lumpy, nonspherical shape that suggests it may be a captured asteroid. (ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)) The origin of the two small moons of Mars, called Phobos and Deimos ...

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 ...

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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 ...

All of the gas giants in our Solar System host ring systems, in contrast to the inner planets. One proposed mechanism of planetary ring formation is disruption or mass shedding of moons. The orbit of ...

Your browser does not support the video element. There are probably many interesting sights you could see from Mars. The Earth and its moon would appear as bright ...