Every command sent to a spacecraft, every solar observation relayed to a ground station, and every photon warming the planet ...

After six months of radio silence, NASA’s Maven spacecraft around Mars has been declared dead. The space agency confirmed ...

For decades, Mars has held a privileged place in the scientific imagination. Its arid landscapes, ancient river channels, and ...

Scientists at NASA and the University of Colorado Boulder have said goodbye to a spacecraft that has spent the last 11 years analyzing the atmosphere of Mars and how it became a rocky planet. The ...

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. On Wednesday, ...

NASA officials said the $582 million MAVEN orbiter could not be recovered after a problem on the far side of Mars late last ...

The agency last heard from the spacecraft on December 6. Recovered fragmentary data suggest that MAVEN was spinning ...

NASA just declared its MAVEN Mars orbiter dead after a dozen productive years circling the Red Planet. Here's the fate that ...

NASA has ended the MAVEN mission after losing contact with the $582 million Mars orbiter during a routine pass behind the planet.

In the region where the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover will search for signs of life, clay deposits extend beyond previous ...