The engineering lesson is simple: Sometimes the best observatory is the one already parked at another planet. When an ...

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 ...

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.

Scientists haven't heard from the MAVEN orbiter since December 6. It had been studying the Martian atmosphere for over a ...

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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, ...

Researchers uncover how Mars affects Earth’s orbit, offering new insight into the planetary forces behind ice ages.

On January 29, 1989, a Soviet space probe named Phobos 2 arrived in orbit around Mars. This was the last space mission ...

This doesn’t mean Mars causes ice ages on its own. Orbital cycles are only part of the picture. Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, ...

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 ...