A Mars spacecraft has now been AWOL for more than a month. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN ...

After 12 years in space, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter has fallen silent, with NASA scientists ...

On December 6, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, which has been studying the Red Planet’s ...

NASA says it is “very unlikely” the agency will be able to recover a Mars spacecraft that has been out of contact for more ...

Things aren't looking good for one of NASA's Mars orbiters. MAVEN (short for "Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution") has been silent since Dec. 4, despite repeated efforts to hail the spacecraft, ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

NASA lost contact with the MAVEN probe in Mars orbit, and teams are working to reestablish communications after an unexpected ...

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 one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission ...

(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 ...

Dust isn't that bad after all, at least on Mars. The Red planet has an abundance of dust, dirt, and soil across most of its ...

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) was first launched in November 2013 Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...