For decades, the idea of people living on Mars has felt like a distant fantasy, limited by the brutal cost of hauling ...

NASA is confronting a rare double setback at Mars, with one long-serving orbiter suddenly falling silent and another aging spacecraft expected to reach the end of its life soon. The twin problems ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nov. 26 (UPI) --NASA's Perseverance rover has recorded the first evidence of electrical activity on Mars that a scientist described as "mini lightning." A scientific team analyzed 28 hours of audio ...

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 has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars for over a decade. The loss of signal occurred on Dec. 6 as the orbiter passed behind Mars from Earth's perspective. MAVEN ...

Dec. 10 (UPI) --NASA has lost contact with MAVEN, a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than 11 years and one of only three circling the red planet. On Tuesday, NASA said it lost contact ...