A new study challenges the long-standing assumptions about the origin of Mars’s moons by suggesting the Red Planet may have once been surrounded by rings. The research, authored by Matija Ćuk, Kaustub ...

Mars’ largest moon, Phobos, is slowly falling toward the planet, but rather than smash into the surface, it likely will be shredded and the pieces strewn about the planet in a ring like the rings ...

Mars has two small, funky-looking moons with strange orbits, and they may suggest that the red planet once had rings, like some of the larger planets in our solar system. Mars has two small, ...

Mars is normally known as the Red Planet while Saturn is famous for its glamorous system of rings. Now, a new study from the SETI Institute and Purdue University suggests that Mars may have also once ...

The moon Phobos has a mysterious origin but a certain expiration date. Phobos, one of Mars' moons, has an uncertain origin, but its surface grooves show that tidal forces are pulling it apart. In time ...

Mars once had rings like Saturn and a much bigger moon, a new study has revealed. While Mars currently has two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, scientists from the SETI Institute and Purdue University ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - As children, we learned about our solar system’s planets by certain characteristics — Jupiter is the largest, Saturn has rings, Mercury is closest to the sun. Mars is red, but ...

This feature could easily be mistaken for a tree stump with characteristic concentric rings. It’s actually an impressive birds-eye view into an ice-rich impact crater on Mars. Tree rings provide ...