NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, which spent over a decade studying Mars, has officially been declared inactive after losing contact ...

Martian dust once merely seemed like an engineering nuisance, the grit that dimmed solar panels and clogged joints. Now the same fine powder that ended a legendary rover’s life is emerging as a ...

NASA's Maven spacecraft around Mars has been declared dead after six months of radio silence ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft was in excellent shape when it disappeared behind Mars on December 6 of last year. The routine ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That's the future that NASA's ESCAPADE, or Escape and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA has two car-sized vehicles on the ground exploring areas of Mars's surface that are billions of years old. But 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 ...

A round trip from Earth to Mars takes about three years. New research suggests a potential shortcut to Mars, inspired by an asteroid's orbital path, that would reduce the journey to as little as 153 ...

The mysterious party hat-shaped object on Mars which perplexed experts has been identified as a naturally occurring rock shape, attributed to the Martian winds which have been known to produce other ...

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 ...