CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — NASA and Blue Origin are planning to launch the ESCAPADE mission, where a pair of satellites will study Mars' magnetosphere. ESCAPADE will eventually help future ...

Last week, NASA revealed that it had lost the signal from its MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, one of just seven Earthly probes currently orbiting Mars. The agency failed to ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars for over a decade. The loss of signal occurred on Dec. 6 as the orbiter passed behind Mars from Earth's perspective. MAVEN ...

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) was first launched in November 2013 Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. NASA said this week that it was working ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. NASA said ...

One of NASA’s workhorse spacecraft in orbit around Mars has fallen silent, leaving agency personnel scrambling to troubleshoot the issue. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission ...

MAVEN has circled Mars for more than a decade, exploring the planet and relaying data from robots on the surface. Reading time 2 minutes NASA has lost the signal from a Martian probe that also serves ...

WASHINGTON — NASA has lost contact with a Mars orbiter that has circled the planet for more than a decade, collecting science data and serving as a key communications relay. In a statement late Dec. 9 ...

NASA has drafted its Mars rover Perseverance to help monitor the sun’s activity. Every day for the next two months, the rover will image the sun with its Mastcam-Z cameras, capturing crucial ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover may have stumbled on a visitor from outer space – a strange, shiny rock on Mars that scientists think could be a meteorite forged in the heart of an ancient asteroid.

Any plan to send a human crew to explore Moon or Mars requires many tons of propellant to blast off from Moon or Mars for return to Earth. Two propellants are needed: (a) a fuel, typically either ...