Phobos --- the enigmatic, oddly-shaped Martian moon --- could serve as an eventual pit stop for human missions to the Red Planet. That’s, of course, contingent on future Mars exploration ...

Phobos-Grunt, an ambitious mission to land on the larger of Mars ’ two moons, collect samples and return them to Earth, launched successfully on November 9, 2011.

Space junk experts have confirmed when and where the wayward Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt re-entered the atmosphere and crashed back to Earth. The doomed Phobos-Grunt spacecraft fell from space ...

Initial cries of sabotage have morphed into claims that US radar brought down Phobos-Grunt by accident – but how plausible are they?

On Sunday, January 15th, 2012, the Russian spacecraft Phobos-Grunt fell to Earth after a failed attempt to get it to Mars. It burned up in our atmosphere some time around 18:00 UTC, though the exact ...

If you have been following the drama surrounding Russia's failed attempt to send a probe dubbed Phobos-Grunt to the moon, the saga is now over. The probe failed to reach an orbit that would allow ...

Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars probe has burnt up on re-entry into Earth's atmosphere with the remaining fragments believed to have crashed into the Pacific Ocean.

Russia’s Phobos-Grunt space probe, with 22 pounds of radioactive Cobalt-57 on board, fell to Earth Sunday. The probe was launched in November to go to Phobos, a moon of Mars, but its rocket ...

The Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which was meant to travel to a moon of Mars and back, has crashed back to Earth. The ambitious but doomed probe almost certainly splashed into the southern Pacific ...

The failed Russian space probe Phobos-Grunt fell back to Earth on Sunday, crashing in the southeastern Pacific Ocean off Chile, Russia’s state news agency Itar-Tass announced.