On January 29, 1989, a Soviet space probe named Phobos 2 arrived in orbit around Mars. This was the last space mission ...

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 ...

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 ...

Phobos, the tiny innermost moon of Mars, is to come under unprecedented scrutiny after Europe’s mission to Mars goes into orbit around the Red Planet late in 2003. Mars Express is due to pass within ...

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 ...

NASA has recorded stunning, color, time-lapse images of a Mars moon eclipsing the sun. It's an effort that helps astronomers determine when the moon might crash into the planet. Perseverance Mars ...

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

The doomed Martian moon Phobos, which is on a slow death spiral above the Red Planet, may hold some secrets about how Mars was formed. The moon's orbit of Mars — gradually degrading over the eons — ...