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

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NASA’s veteran Mars orbiter MAVEN has slipped into an unnerving quiet, cutting off a decade of continuous atmospheric monitoring from high above the red planet. Engineers are now racing to understand ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...

Mars is on the cusp of becoming bigger and brighter than at any point since 2022 as it comes into alignment with Earth and the sun. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

On November 13, 1971, Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit Mars. At the time, scientists didn't know much about the Red Planet. NASA had several flybys before Mariner 9. Those flybys showed ...