This sort of failure would repeat itself during the failed Phobos-Grunt mission, which crashed back to Earth on January 15 th ...

The lander section of the Kosmos 482 probe was launched in 1972 and designed to survive on Venus. Now it's due a fiery ...

Soviet satellite Kosmos 482 is set to tumble back to Earth's atmosphere after 50 years in orbit, and its landing spot remains ...

A half-ton Soviet spacecraft, Kosmos 482, launched in 1972 for Venus, is predicted to make an uncontrolled reentry around May ...

It is rare to find brown dwarf stars orbiting in pairs, and this pair has an even more unusual exoplanet companion ...

We wrote about this doomed mission in 2019, and the prospects for reentry. Launched on a Molniya-8K78M rocket from the ...

With the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, researchers hope to find an answer. Phobos completes one orbit of Mars in just over seven and a half hours at an altitude of approximately 6000 ...

Each century, Phobos gets about six feet closer to Mars ... fall silent en route, miss orbit around Mars, burn up in the atmosphere, crash on the surface, or die prematurely.

The MMX space probe from the Japanese space organisation JAXA is set to change this: it will examine the two Martian moons in detail from orbit and collect material samples from Phobos for the first ...

Sunbirds will act as space tugs, attaching to spacecraft in orbit and propelling them further ... explores the possibility that Mars’ moons, Phobos and Deimos, formed from asteroid debris ...

Its orbit is about 1.5 times the size of Earth ... Mars has two small, potato-shaped moons, called Phobos and Deimos. These moons are named for two sons of the Greek god of war, Ares, which ...