NASA is approaching a decisive moment on a Mars telecommunications orbiter that could shape the future of robotic and human ...

What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue ...

The engineering lesson is simple: Sometimes the best observatory is the one already parked at another planet. When an interstellar comet was in a viewing geometry that kept Earth-based telescopes too ...

A Mars spacecraft has now been AWOL for more than a month. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN ...

Even though the Red Planet's atmosphere is thin, wind is still one of Mars' most relentless sculptors.

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has orbited Mars for over a decade. MAVEN, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, ...

It’s a virtual mission to Mars. Our first mission to Mars may still be a ways off, but people can take a virtual tour of the Red Planet thanks to a brand new video by the Mars Express Orbiter. People ...

An artistic illustration of the MAVEN orbiter and Mars NASA / GSFC After 12 years in space, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter has fallen silent, with NASA scientists back on ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The orbiter, one of three zooming around Mars' atmosphere, had been working as expected before it ...