... Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars . ... Mars, the red planet named for the Roman god of war, has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, whose names are derived from the Greek for Fear and Panic. ... Curious Cometary Knots in the Helix Nebula . ... On April 12th, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin became the first human in space. ... Commenting on the first view from space he reported, "The sky is very dark; the Earth is bluish. At first he couldn t see the Moon . ... Is this a spiral galaxy? ...