NASA is working to reestablish communication with MAVEN, the space agency's decade-old Mars orbiter, after it suddenly lost contact with Earth this week. In an update Tuesday, NASA said ground ...

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 ...

The key to solving the mystery of the Viking results is the discovery of perchlorate on the Martian surface in 2008.

NASA is racing to contact a lost probe that mysteriously lost contact over Mars in early December. The $582.5 million Maven spacecraft went dark behind Mars and may have been “rotating in an ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN orbiter has gone silent after more than a decade of groundbreaking research, leaving engineers scrambling to determine what went wrong with the reliable ...

On November 13, NASA launched a new unmanned mission to Mars under the name ESCAPADE, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers. The launch was met with fairly little fanfare in ...

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).

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

NASA’s ESCAPADE is the first UC Berkeley-led planetary mission. Its two identical satellites will provide an unprecedented stereo view of Mars’ magnetosphere. Mapping the ionosphere and space ...