Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations on Dec. 6.

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that's been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped ...

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

One of NASA’s workhorse spacecraft in orbit around Mars has fallen silent, leaving agency personnel scrambling to ...

A study led by NYU Abu Dhabi’s Space Exploration Laboratory found underground water that turned sand dunes into solid rock, ...

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Dust devils on Mars form when air near the warm surface heats up and rises through cooler surrounding air, causing nearby air ...

Justin Cyrus couldn't get investors interested in his idea to build what we'd need to live in space. Now Lunar Outpost has ...

Clocks tick faster on Mars than they do on Earth, in part because Mars experiences less gravitational pull from the Sun. Now scientists have calculated just how much faster -- 477 microseconds, on ...

A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...

China’s breakthrough on-orbit refueling test, still unachieved by the US, delivers a major strategic advantage in today's ...

Cyanobacteria were long thought to need the sun to survive. But a new study suggests otherwise and hints at fresh ...