For decades, the idea of people living on Mars has felt like a distant fantasy, limited by the brutal cost of hauling ...

The race to Mars has quietly become the defining contest of twenty-first century spaceflight, pitting a state-backed Chinese ...

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MAVEN has remained silent since Dec. 6 despite repeated attempts to contact it, according to NASA. As part of the recovery ...

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 one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission ...

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

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars for over a decade. The loss of signal occurred on Dec. 6 as the orbiter passed behind Mars from Earth's perspective. MAVEN ...

The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft on board at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 in Cape Canaveral, ...