An international campaign to assess the imminent atmospheric reentry of Russia’s Phobos-Grunt Mars craft is being coordinated by experts in ESA’s Space Debris Office. Participants include NASA and ...

Scientists now have firm indications that the martian satellite Phobos formed relatively near its current location via re-accretion of material blasted into Mars’ orbit by some catastrophic event. Two ...

Perhaps Chicken Little was right, because recently it has seemed like the sky really is falling. This time it's the appropriately named Russian satellite Phobos-Grunt, which looks ready to crash to ...

After a successful entry to the Mars Orbiter, ISRO’s Mars Orbiter on Tuesday shared the pictures of Phobos. These are the largest of the two natural satellites that orbit around Mars. Indian Space ...

A team of researchers from UC Santa Cruz, led by Michael Nayak, have been studying the strange chain of craters that appear on the surface of Mars’ closest-orbiting satellite: Phobos. Their findings ...

Phobos-Grunt spacecraft meant to reach Mars, never left Earth orbit. Jan. 15, 2012 — -- Somewhere, probably in the southern Pacific between New Zealand and South America, the failed Russian ...

NASA had a bit of excitement earlier this week, with its Jet Propulsion Laboratory's flight controllers having to send commends to the MAVEN spacecraft, making it perform an evasive maneuver to avoid ...

Mars has two moons today - Phobos and Deimos - but new research suggests the Red Planet was once home to a much larger satellite in the distant past. Astronomers believe the moon orbiting our own ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Crisscrossed grooves and chains of small craters cover the Martian moon Phobos. Astronomers have ...

We've been studying Mars for decades, and there are several satellites in orbit of the Red Planet right now, constantly sending back data from their telescopes and sensors. These satellites have ...

Scientists now have firm indications that the Martian satellite Phobos formed relatively near its current location via re-accretion of material blasted into Mars' orbit by some catastrophic event. Two ...