Efforts to communicate with MAVEN since then have been unsuccessful, according to an agency release, and NASA officials held ...

NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter has been rotated to capture imagery of the Red Planet that would be similar to what an astronaut would see. Odyssey Deputy Project Scientist Laura Kerber explains. Credit: NA ...

NASA officials said the $582 million MAVEN orbiter could not be recovered after a problem on the far side of Mars late last year, and that its extraordinarily successful mission was at an end.

On June 14, 2026, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover completed a marathon, or 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometers) as a spacecraft ...

Eleven years in Mars orbit, terabytes of vital information on the Martian atmosphere, and over half a billion dollars in government funding. This is what was brought into peril on December 6th, 2025, ...

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).

Over more than a decade at Mars, the orbiter revealed how the solar wind strips away the planet’s atmosphere — and why the world lost its water.

They call it the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, for short, and it's the first spacecraft dedicated to the study of the Martian atmosphere and its evolution. Or, should I say, was, ...

ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover will investigate possible signs of life in Martian clay.

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