NASA is approaching a decisive moment on a Mars telecommunications orbiter that could shape the future of robotic and human exploration. According to Ars Technica, the agency must choose quickly ...

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

NASA has abruptly lost contact with a key spacecraft circling Mars, cutting off a scientific workhorse that has spent years listening to the planet’s thin atmosphere and relaying data from the surface ...

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 ...

MAVEN was built to last in orbit until 2030 — that's not looking likely anymore.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Mars spacecraft that has been orbiting the red planet for more than a decade has now been AWOL for more than a month. NASA first lost contact with its MAVEN orbiter at the beginning of December.

MAVEN has enough fuel to stay in orbit until 2030, but after a month of silence, scientists say recovery is increasingly unlikely. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...