Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 29, 1989, a Soviet space probe named Phobos 2 arrived in orbit around Mars. This was the last space mission launched by ...

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is orbiting Mars to study the planet's atmosphere. Also high on its list of mission-critical goals is not crashing into things. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share ...

MOSCOW - A Russian space probe designed to boost the nation's pride on a bold mission to a moon of Mars came down in flames Sunday, showering fragments into the south Pacific west of Chile's coast, ...

Space junk experts have confirmed when and where the wayward Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt re-entered the atmosphere and crashed back to Earth. The doomed Phobos-Grunt spacecraft fell from space on ...

MOSCOW — Russian scientists were racing against the clock Wednesday to find a way to fire the engines of an unmanned probe destined to collect surface samples from a moon of Mars, after a post-launch ...

On January 29, 1989, a Soviet space probe named Phobos 2 arrived in orbit around Mars. This was the last space mission launched by the Soviet Union. Its primary purpose was to study Mars' two moons, ...