The European Space Agency announced today (Dec. 2) 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.

— -- Named after the bellicose god of war, Mars has claimed many a victim, and the latest one, a Russian space probe, looks likely to tumble to Earth very soon. Launched Nov. 8 from Kazakhstan, ...

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) —— ...

Mars has not been a happy place for the Russian space program. The nation’s attempts to explore the Red Planet, going back more than 50 years, have produced a long litany of failures. The most recent ...

Technicians at Russia's NPO Lavochkin are sending the Phobos-Grunt sample-return probe into thermal vacuum testing, setting the mission up for launch in the planetary window late this year. If all ...

Russia’s Phobos-Grunt mission to collect samples from one of Mars’s moons has been scaled down to save costs, with the mission now budgeted to cost Rb1.5 billion ($53 million). The lander will be ...

Phobos-Grunt was the chosen one. It was said that it would bring an end to Russia’s Martian curse, not extend it. But now, Russia’s once-promising spacecraft — the country’s first bid at ...