Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The orbiter, one of three ...

Previously called the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter, the winner of the fast-track NASA program is widely expected to receive a contract by the end of September under legislation which requires ...

NASA has abruptly lost contact with a key spacecraft circling Mars, cutting off a scientific workhorse that has spent years listening to the planet’s thin atmosphere and relaying data from the surface ...

Volcanic ash is creeping across the surface of Mars with startling speed. The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Mars Express ...

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 NASA spacecraft that has been circling Mars for more than two decades has spotted something it never has before in well over 100,000 orbits of the Red Planet. On a morning horizon in May, the ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this contrast-enhanced view captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA’s Curiosity rover was trucking across the surface of Mars, heading to ...

NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter captured the first horizon view of Arsia Mons, an enormous volcano on the Red Planet. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU NASA’s longest-running Mars mission has sent back an ...

Stunning new images, released by Nasa, give a glimpse into what the new base will look like, building on the huge success of ...

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 ...