NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, which has orbited Mars since 2014, went quiet abruptly in early December. Efforts to reestablish a ...

"How do you get to Mars when the launch vehicle is not necessarily going to Mars?" ...

Several of NASA's space-based missions have observed Interstellar Comet 3I⧸ATLAS. As it approaches Mars, orbiters and rovers ...

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 ...

Even though the U.S. space agency NASA has gone silent because of the federal government shutdown, it is secretly preparing to send two robotic spacecraft toward Mars. The mission is called Escapade, ...

The U.S. space agency has fallen silent amid the federal government shutdown, but it's about to slingshot a pair of robotic spacecraft to Mars. The trajectory, which became necessary after two ...

Another view from Perseverance shows how windswept Mars' landscape truly is.

(NEW YORK) — Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its ...

NASA monitors MAVEN spacecraft after December 6 signal loss, coordinating recovery with Deep Space Network. Mars solar conjunction from December 29 to January 16 will pause communications.

NASA has successfully moved one of its Mars-orbiting spacecraft into a new position to provide prompt confirmation of the upcoming Aug. 5 landing of the new Curiosity rover on the Red Planet. The ...

(CNN) — Twin spacecraft are set to take off on an unprecedented, winding journey to Mars, where they will investigate why the barren red planet began to lose its atmosphere billions of years ago.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. NASA said ...