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 ...

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

Phobos 1 lost communications due to a software glitch that September, but Phobos 2 had better luck and made it all the way to Mars orbit.

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation today announced its Phobos-1 well in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico encountered approximately 250 net feet of high-quality oil pay in Lower Tertiary-aged reservoirs.

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.

Mars's Doomed Moon Phobos Might Not Be What We Thought A team found previously unpublished photos of the moon, and a few more surprises after that.

The USSR, and later Russia, developed three missions exclusively for the study of the martian moons: Phobos 1 and 2 in the late 1980s, which saw radio contact break off after arriving at Mars after ...

The Soviet Union launched two probes to Phobos in July 1988, Phobos 1 and 2, but Phobos1 was lost en route in September, while Phobos 2 died shortly after reaching Phobos in January 1989.

The project, called Phobos-Grunt ("grunt" is Russian for "soil") also includes a small Chinese spacecraft called Yinghuo 1 that is designed to orbit Mars, as well as an astrobiology experiment ...

Phobos has been photographed in close-up by several spacecraft whose primary mission has been to photograph Mars. The first was Mariner 7 in 1969, followed by Mariner 9 in 1971, Viking 1 in 1977, ...