For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...

Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much ...

Eleven years in Mars orbit, terabytes of vital information on the Martian atmosphere, and over half a billion dollars in government funding. This is what was brought into peril on December 6th, 2025, ...

NASA has not reestablished contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter since a planned communications blackout ended Jan. 16.

NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft will uncover how the Sun stripped Mars of its atmosphere. Mars is a very different world ...