Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and ...

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 ...

New images from the Mars Express spacecraft show ancient volcanic ash spreading across the Red Planet The wide strip of land in Utopia Planitia is imaged by Mars Express. The dark ...

Could Mars have just stolen Earth’s front-row seat to one of the rarest cosmic events in decades? In early October, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the MAVEN spacecraft, and the Perseverance ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The space agency last heard from the Maven (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft as it orbited ...

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.

NASA further said that the phase angle of the image is 98 degrees, meaning that less than half of both Earth and the Moon are directly illuminated.

When the orbit of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft took it behind the Red Planet on December 6th, ground controllers expected a temporary loss of signal (LoS).

Mars' north pole contains a large ice cap made up of many layers of frozen water. Like ice cores on Earth, those layers offer a tantalizing record of climate on Mars over the past several million ...

At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. Yet new research reveals the extent to which Mars is quietly tugging on Earth's orbit and shaping the ...

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 wide strip of land in Utopia Planitia imaged by Mars Express. The dark volcanic material is on the right, while grabens ...