— -- Mars has claimed many a spacecraft as victim, and the latest one, a Russian space probe, looks likely to tumble to Earth very soon. Russia's Phobos-Grunt ("grunt" is Russian for ground or ...

Thirty-two years ago today, on Aug. 21, 1993, NASA’s Mars Observer went eerily quiet—a few days before it was slated to enter Martian orbit. The robotic craft, depicted in this illustration, was sent ...

DARMSTADT, Germany - European space controllers sent the Beagle 2 probe on its final approach to Mars on Friday, a critical step in Europe's first mission to explore the Red Planet for signs of life.