Phobos: Facts About the Doomed Martian Moon0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 3, 2016
The moon orbiting over Mars, Phobos, is slowly falling towards the surface of the red planet.

The moon orbiting over Mars, Phobos, is slowly falling towards the surface of the red planet.

A new image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft shortly before its controlled impact into the comet’s surface on Sept. 30, 2016.

Astronomers have found a distinct structure involving spiral arms in the reservoir of gas and dust disk surrounding the young star Elias 2-27.

SpaceX founder tells meeting of astronautical experts that his only purpose is to ‘make life interplanetary’, revealing plans for reusable ship to Mars

As predicted, a high-speed stream of solar wind is buffeting Earth’s magnetic field.

It’s a case of pulsar ping-pong. Repeating radio bursts from space may be the result of pulsars colliding with asteroids in faraway stellar systems.

An image of the Hyperboreae Undae was taken by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laporatory, showing us a very interesting, almost scale-like image.

NASA-funded sounding rocket solves one cosmic mystery, reveals another

NASA plans to have a submarine called the Kraken Mare to be deployed in the oceans of the moon Titan.

Though ancient cultures often saw comets as harbingers of doom, the cosmic “dirty snowballs” are now viewed as important objects that could help scientists learn more about the early evolution of the solar system.



