A large piece of an old Soviet satellite is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere around May 10, but no one can determine exactly where it will land. The object is part of Kosmos 482, a Soviet probe ...

Japan’s space agency (JAXA) is sending a mission to travel to Mars which will survey the Red Planet’s two moons, Phobos and Deimos. The spacecraft will explore both moons and collect a sample of ...

MOSCOW, January 6 (Itar-Tass) —— Up to 200 kilograms of fragments of the 5-billion-ruble Phobos-Grunt interplanetary research rover might fall over the Earth from January 10 through 21. The most ...

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Some observers speculated that using the cheap components could have stemmed from a scheme to embezzle government funds, rather than importing the specialized equipment for the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. An ambitious but failed attempt by Russia to ...

An ambitious but failed attempt by Russia to return to the moon after nearly half a century has exposed the massive challenges faced by Moscow’s once-proud space program. The destruction of the ...