The long-running MAVEN orbiter has been declared unrecoverable, closing a Mars project that lasted far beyond its original ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft was in excellent shape when it disappeared behind Mars on December 6 of last year. The routine ...

Imagine a helicopter soaring through the thin Martian atmosphere at supersonic speeds! NASA's engineers have achieved the ...

NASA has ended its MAVEN mission after losing contact with the spacecraft after an 11-year exploration of Mars’ atmosphere ...

NASA's M-STAR initiative, managed by the Office of STEM Engagement, supports research and development aligned with lunar and Mars exploration.

According to NASA, the spacecraft launched with enough fuel to keep it running until 2030, but the agency lost contact with ...

A routine pass behind Mars marked the end of an era for one of NASA’s most important space missions. After more than a decade ...

Over more than a decade at Mars, the orbiter revealed how the solar wind strips away the planet’s atmosphere — and why the ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shannon Curry, principal investigator on NASA's MAVEN mission, about the spacecraft's decade of observations of Mars.

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

NASA has confirmed its MAVEN spacecraft is officially dead after losing contact with the probe in December. An anomaly in the ...

A round trip from Earth to Mars takes about three years. New research suggests a potential shortcut to Mars, inspired by an asteroid's orbital path, that would reduce the journey to as little as 153 ...