NASA has committed to running two competing landing architectures side by side for its Mars Sample Return mission, a strategy ...

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter captured this view of Mars’ south polar ice cap Feb. 25, 2015. Three years later, ...

NASA is still trying to recontact the MAVEN Mars orbiter after it stopped responding earlier this month, with fragmentary tracking data hinting the craft may be tumbling and off its predicted ...

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 ...

A consequential debate that has been simmering behind closed doors at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, must soon come to a head. It concerns the selection of the next spacecraft the agency will ...

A Mars spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, has been AWOL. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN orbiter.

An ultraviolet view of Mars captured by NASA’s Maven spacecraft in July 2022. Credit: NASA/LASP/CU Boulder NASA is assessing a troubling loss of signal from a Mars orbiter that has spent the last 11 ...

HOUSTON—NASA is assembling an anomaly review board and attempting to reestablish communications following its Dec. 6 loss of contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft.