NASA's MAVEN orbiter, a veteran explorer of Mars' atmosphere, fell silent on December 6, 2025, during a routine pass behind the planet. The 70-meter dish at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications ...

NASA lost communication with its MAVEN probe nearly a month ago, and efforts to re-establish a connection have been futile.

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The orbiter, one of three zooming around Mars' atmosphere, had been working as expected before it ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations ...

NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN orbiter has gone silent after more than a decade of groundbreaking research, leaving engineers scrambling to determine what went wrong with the reliable ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The orbiter, launched in 2013 from Florida, studies the upper atmosphere of Mars to understand its ...

Though it has been scouring the Martian surface for more than a decade, NASA's Curiosity rover has never been imaged from above within the planet's atmosphere – until now. Far from being camera shy, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this contrast-enhanced view captured on Feb. 28 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) officially went into ...

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 ...

Curiosity has been the subject of countless selfies and images taken from space, but has never been photographed from Mars' own orbit. The reconnaissance orbiter, which has been circling Mars since ...