The mission is not deemed feasible given the high budget it demands and the uncertainty around its operations.

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

MAVEN was built to last in orbit until 2030 — that's not looking likely anymore.

Nearly 14 years ago, NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars for a mission to explore the red planet and discover if it had an ...

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 ...

NASA is moving into a new phase of space exploration, with major progress across human spaceflight, science missions, and ...

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 ...

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 has launched the Mars to Table Challenge, seeking Earth-independent food systems capable of sustaining astronauts on ...