NASA is approaching a decisive moment on a Mars telecommunications orbiter that could shape the future of robotic and human exploration. According to Ars Technica, the agency must choose quickly ...

What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue ...

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A Mars spacecraft has now been AWOL for more than a month. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN orbiter.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist's concept depicts NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, spacecraft near Mars. The spacecraft ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations ...

See the 2,500 mile-long (4000 km) Valles Marineris in imagery captured the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Global topography: ...

An artistic illustration of the MAVEN orbiter and Mars NASA / GSFC After 12 years in space, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter has fallen silent, with NASA scientists back on ...

MAVEN has enough fuel to stay in orbit until 2030, but after a month of silence, scientists say recovery is increasingly unlikely. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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.

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 ...