The European Space Agency announced today (Dec. 2) that it will stop trying to contact the beleaguered Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which has been stuck in the wrong orbit for almost a month now.

Late tonight look to the east to see the moon line up below the Red Planet. Binoculars will reveal nice crater detail on the moon but don't expect them to show much on Mars. Being a small planet only ...

Mars has not been a happy place for the Russian space program. The nation’s attempts to explore the Red Planet, going back more than 50 years, have produced a long litany of failures. The most recent ...

The exact place and time for the Phobos-Grunt debris fallout are being specified as long as the altitude of its orbit is getting lower MOSCOW, January 11 (Itar-Tass) —— The Federal Space Agency ...

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Russia’s Phobos-Grunt mission to collect samples from one of Mars’s moons has been scaled down to save costs, with the mission now budgeted to cost Rb1.5 billion ($53 million). The lander will be ...

This is a full-scale mockup of Russia's Phobos-Grunt. The spacecraft will collect samples of soil on Mar's moon Phobos and to bring the samples back to Earth for detailed study. This image shows ...