When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The hopping asteroid lander MASCOT may be dead, but its bloodline will live on — and get to ...

There are more than 200 moons in the Solar System, including Phobos and Deimos, which orbit Mars. NASA's Odyssey orbiter has snapped new pictures of Phobos, giving new insight into the celestial ...

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 ...

PARIS — The Russian space agency Roscosmos says its moribund Phobos-Grunt spacecraft could reenter Earth’s atmosphere over the southern Atlantic Ocean Jan. 15, raining down 20-30 chunks of ...

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The European Space Agency could provide ground station tracking for Russia's sample return Phobos-Grunt mission in return for a Khrunichev Space Center Proton rocket launch to limit the growing costs ...

China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft has taken an incredible image of Phobos, one of the two moons orbiting Mars, from just 3,160 miles away — and the level of detail is breathtaking. Tianwen-1’s shot of the ...

SNOW ISN’T THE ONLY thing that’s gonna fall. As you know, the Russian satellite Phobos Grunt is expected to fall out of orbit within the next day or so. While it’s impossible to know exactly where it ...

A rare movie of the Martian moon Phobos has been captured by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft. The moon is set to be the target of an international mission to survey the Red ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. I never ...

BAIKONUR, November 9 (Itar-Tass) — The automatic interplanetary station (AIS) Phobos-Grunt (soil) has successfully separated from the carrier rocket Zenit (zenith)-2SB that blasted off from Baikonur ...

Commenting on the theory that the station could have broken down due to the impact of the US radar, Popovkin noted that "the committee is investigating this theory" MOSCOW, January 19 (Itar-Tass) —— ...