"How do you get to Mars when the launch vehicle is not necessarily going to Mars?" ...
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, which has orbited Mars since 2014, went quiet abruptly in early December. Efforts to reestablish a ...
Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its surface. So, ...
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A Mars probe snapped 3I/ATLAS: Very likely a comet

What is the behavior of modern space science when a visitor of another star system arrives measuring it during silence, or describing it in noisy terms? The longest lasting fascination in the case of ...
(NEW YORK) — Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its ...
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 ...
The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang went to ...
NASA's sharp-eyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) just notched a big milestone. MRO's HiRISE ("High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment") camera has now snapped 100,000 photos of the surface of ...
Blue Origin launched its second heavy-lift New Glenn rocket Thursday, putting two small NASA satellites onto a long, looping course to Mars to learn more about how the sun has slowly blown away the ...
NASA monitors MAVEN spacecraft after December 6 signal loss, coordinating recovery with Deep Space Network. Mars solar conjunction from December 29 to January 16 will pause communications.
Something extraordinary happened last week that gave me some hope our species is still evolving and will one day realize our dreams in the stars, as the comet 3I/ATLAS was caught on camera by the ...