Launch windows to the red planet are rare and dictated by orbital positions. This constraint has long dictated the rhythm of missions, imposing waits of several years between each opportunity. However ...

NASA is racing to contact a lost probe that mysteriously lost contact over Mars in early December. The $582.5 million Maven ...

MAVEN has circled Mars for more than a decade, exploring the planet and relaying data from robots on the surface. Reading time 2 minutes NASA has lost the signal from a Martian probe that also serves ...

From a return of humans to lunar orbit, to Japan's first crack at Mars, advanced space travel and exploration is set to ...

Mars ended NASA’s InSight mission on its own terms, not with a dramatic crash or a catastrophic malfunction, but with a slow, suffocating blanket of dust that starved the lander of power. That quiet ...

Blue Origin launched its second heavy-lift New Glenn rocket Thursday, putting two small NASA satellites onto a long, looping course to Mars to learn more about how the sun has slowly blown away the ...

Last week, NASA revealed that it had lost the signal from its MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, one of just seven Earthly probes currently orbiting Mars. The agency failed to ...

Eleven years in Mars orbit, terabytes of vital information on the Martian atmosphere, and over half a billion dollars in government funding. This is what was brought into peril on December 6th, 2025, ...