A Mars spacecraft that has been orbiting the red planet for more than a decade has now been AWOL for more than a month. NASA first lost contact with its MAVEN orbiter at the beginning of December.

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and has a distinct rusty red appearance and two unusual moons. The Red Planet is a ...

The spacecraft that has quietly rewritten our understanding of Mars just crossed a very visible milestone: the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured its 100,000th close-up view of the Red Planet.

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A revised asteroid calculation may have opened a new expressway to Mars and back; experts believe that we could shrink a round trip to the Red Planet from 14-20 months to more than half of that.

ESA orbiters watched a May 2024 solar superstorm flood Mars’ upper air with electrons and trigger spacecraft glitches. (CREDIT: SOHO (ESA & NASA), NASA/SDO/AIA, JHelioviewer/D. Müller) A storm from ...

New images from the Mars Express spacecraft show ancient volcanic ash spreading across the Red Planet The wide strip of land in Utopia Planitia is imaged by Mars Express. The dark ...

(The Hill) — Deimos, the smaller of Mars’ two moons, may be more like its planet than we realize. New, high-resolution views of the tiny moon were recently captured by a United Arab Emirates ...

Mars' north pole contains a large ice cap made up of many layers of frozen water. Like ice cores on Earth, those layers offer a tantalizing record of climate on Mars over the past several million ...

On 13 November, the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamic Explorers (EscaPADE) mission launched to space on the New Glenn rocket provided by Blue Origin. The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Mars spacecraft that has been orbiting the red planet for more than a decade has now been AWOL for more than a month. NASA first ...