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.

PARIS — A European tracking antenna in Australia failed to pick up any signals from Russia’s Phobos-Grunt spacecraft the night of Nov. 24-25 after two consecutive evenings of success, a setback ...

PARIS — An international organization of spacefaring nations has concluded that the data provided by its members permitted an accurate prediction of the likely landing area of Russia’s Phobos-Grunt ...

— -- 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, ...

A huge hunk of Russian space junk is set to crash to Earth in the next few days, but nobody knows exactly when or where it's going to come down. The 14.5-ton Mars probe Phobos-Grunt, which got stuck ...

Also, some speculated that the probe may have been affected by a US radar The Russian automatic inter-planetary space probe Phobos-Grunt has failed to cope with its mission not due to some external ...

Russian space engineers seal the Mars Phobos-Grunt spacecraft inside its Zenit 3SL rocket nosecone for a Nov. 2011 launch toward the Red Planet to explore Mars and its moon Phobos. Russian space ...

The European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter has snapped a fresh round of high-resolution images of the Martian moon Phobos, including a 3-D picture and a look at a yet-to-be-launched probe’s once ...

[Update 2 (18:40 UTC): According to the US Strategic Command, Phobos-Grunt re-entered over the Pacific ocean, not far west of Chile. This is unconfirmed, but STRATCOM is usually quite reliable. As I ...

On Sunday, January 15th, 2012, the Russian spacecraft Phobos-Grunt fell to Earth after a failed attempt to get it to Mars. It burned up in our atmosphere some time around 18:00 UTC, though the exact ...

will make a kamikaze dive into Earth's atmosphere sometime around Sunday, experts say. The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, which has given up hope of recovering the spacecraft, is now concentrating ...

Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft sits atop its Zenit-2SB rocket on the pad in Kazakhstan, ready for its Nov. 8, 2011 launch toward the Martian moon Phobos. Russian space engineers seal the Mars Phobos ...