Scientists have previously speculated that it may actually be a piece of asteroid, not a moon. Mars and Deimos (foreground) as viewed by a piece of equipment on the space probe Hera.

ESA's Mars Express orbiter captured footage of the Mars' moon Deimos pass in front of Ganymede, Europa, Jupiter, Io and ...

Mars' Deimos moon, captured by NASA's Perseverance rover. NASA Once in a while, you might look up and marvel at magnificent views of our moon, its surface dramatically lit by our sun’s light.

Deimos, located approximately 14,600 miles (23,500 km) from the surface of Mars, is a synchronously rotating moon. This means it always presents the same face to Mars, making this image even more ...

Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared Imager images acquired during the Hera mission's gravity-assist flyby of Mars on March 12, 2025.

The European Space Agency's Hera mission flew by Mars and its lesser-known moon Deimos on March 12, 2025, for a critical gravity assist for its journey. Credit: ESA.

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.

A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken stunning bonus images of Mars and its moon Deimos en route to its final ...

That bright sparkle wasn't a morning star beaming from distant space, but something more mysterious — Mars' shiest moon, Deimos. The rover used one of its navigation cameras at a long-exposure ...

A moon is defined as any naturally-formed body that permanently orbits a planet. But because of their irregular shape and miniature size, many scientists say that Phobos and Deimos look more like ...

The other is that Phobos and Deimos formed like our own moon, out of the debris of a giant impact (SN: 7/4/16).). “That’s one of the few ways to make a big disk to grow moons out of,” says ...

Europe's HERA mission has taken a good look at Mars and its moon Deimos on its way to explore the aftermath of the DART impact in the Didymos–Dimorphos asteroid system.