It will be the first Russian-led mission to Mars since the loss of the Phobos 1 and Phobos 2 probes in 1988 and the botched launch of the Mars 96 spacecraft.

Several planned missions to visit directly, such as Phobos 1 and 2 and, more recently, Phobos Grunt, have failed in space, limiting our understanding of this potentially helpful moon to secondary ...

Phobos is sometimes called a "doomed moon", as it is set to potentially crash into Mars. As well as this, close-up images of the moons show Phobos has peculiar 1-kilometer ...

What would it feel like to stand on the tiny moons of Mars,Phobos and Deimos? Explore the surreal experience of visiting Mars ...

The volunteer research subjects start their virtual journey to Phobos on October. 1, 2021, in a ground-based habitat at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

Efforts to reach the Martian moon Phobos have long been outshined by missions to the red planet itself. Now, scientists in Russia, Canada and the U.S. are preparing their own missions to the ...

See stunning photos of Phobos and Deimos, the small moons of Mars, as seen by spacecraft on and orbiting the Red Planet. Phobos is the largest moon of Mars, with Deimos as a smaller satellite.

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 ...