The five-year mission will attempt to land a robotic prospector plus a rover on Phobos, the larger and closer of Mars’ two ...

Although Phobos and Deimos may look like lumpy space potatoes, they’re actually moons of Mars. No one knows how they formed, ...

Japan launched a historic quest to land on Mars’ moon Phobos and return the first-ever soil samples from the Martian system ...

NASA has landed nine spacecraft on Mars over the past 50 years, and China touched down in 2021, but no one has returned ...

Japan's mission to the Martian moon Phobos launched this week, with a veteran European probe expected to be waiting when it ...

A Japanese spacecraft rocketed toward Mars on Tuesday on a quest to explore its mysterious moons and bring back samples.

The mission, scheduled to launch on Monday, is headed to Phobos, the larger of the two moons of Mars. It could carry back the ...

A Japanese spacecraft rocketed toward Mars on Tuesday on a quest to explore its mysterious moons and bring back samples.

The spacecraft, due to arrive near Mars around August next year, aims to become the first to retrieve samples from one of its ...