Mars changed from a blue world with water to a red desert because its atmosphere escaped into space over billions of years.

Flying edge-on, the satellite’s pancake shape will minimize aerodynamic drag as the DiskSats encounter thicker air below 250 ...

The Mars Express orbiter has kept an eye on an elongated cloud above Arsia Mons volcano for the last few years. The cloud is ...

The data was collected to support the development of the Starfish Space Otter, which is designed to rendezvous with other ...

MAVEN (short for "Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution") has been silent since Dec. 4, despite repeated efforts to hail the ...

It was on 1972 that a man last walked on the Moon. The US and UK need to shake off the deadening sense of national decline ...

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure ...

The world's largest planetary defense drill is underway as scientists prepare for 3I/ATLAs to make its closest pass by Earth ...

SpaceX has amassed billions of dollars in funding over the years from investors including Founders Fund and Google’s parent ...

NASA has lost contact with MAVEN, a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than 11 years and one of only three ...

NASA has lost contact with one its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars ...

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) is one of only three NASA missions currently in operation around Mars, and one ...