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 ...

Artist’s concept of Japan’s Mars Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft, carrying a NASA instrument to study the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos. The mission should contain a sample return component, and ...

Experts speculate a new Phobos mission could launch by 2030, leveraging advancements in propulsion and AI for safer trajectories. The Phobos-Grunt mission, Russia’s endeavor to explore Mars' moon ...

On March 27, 1989, the Soviet Union's Phobos 2 mission to Mars' moons ended in failure. But the whole mission was definitely not a failure. Phobos 2 arrived in Mars orbit two months earlier and had ...

While several unanswered questions regarding Mars remain today, we could uncover many answers that we seek by studying the red planet’s moons: Deimos and Phobos. As of today, humankind has very little ...

WASHINGTON — A Russian spacecraft designed to return a soil sample from the martian moon Phobos lifted off successfully Nov. 8 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Roscosmos, the Russian space ...

This is a full-scale mockup of Russia's Phobos-Grunt. The spacecraft will collect samples of soil on Mar's moon Phobos and to bring the samples back to Earth for detailed study. This image shows ...

Japan's space agency has finalized a plan to send a probe to the Martian moons of Phobos and Deimos, and it includes an ambitious lander to collect samples from Phobos to return to Earth. The current ...

Russian scientists have recently improved their probe by replacing the drill shown with a scoop device to collect soil in the weak gravity of Phobos, the larger of Mars’ two moons. CNES Imagine a ...

Mars has long been a point of fascination for scientists as they try to uncover the planet’s past and determine if it ever supported life. It turns out that Phobos, one of the Martian moons, may hold ...

Russian space engineers seal the Mars Phobos-Grunt spacecraft inside its Zenit 3SL rocket nosecone for a Nov. 2011 launch toward the Red Planet to explore Mars and its moon Phobos. Russian space ...