Japan is scheduled to launch the world’s first mission intended to bring samples back from Phobos, the larger of Mars’ two ...

After floating accusations against U.S. military radars, flawed foreign parts and space radiation, Russian space officials have concluded a software glitch caused the failure of the Phobos-Grunt Mars ...

I'm not looking forward to spending the weekend sitting deathwatch on Phobos-Grunt. It's not science, and it's a sad event, so my instincts would lead me to other subjects. But it contains the ...

Japan has launched a spacecraft to Mars’s two small moons in a mission that could shed light on their mysterious origins.

PARIS — A European tracking antenna in Australia failed to pick up any signals from Russia’s Phobos-Grunt spacecraft the night of Nov. 24-25 after two consecutive evenings of success, a setback ...

The European Space Agency announced Friday 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. Russia's ...