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NASA still hasn't heard from its MAVEN Mars orbiter, and the spacecraft appears to be spinning in an odd way as well.

Engineers do not have the luxury of time for regaining control of the spacecraft. A solar conjunction (where Mars is obscured ...

Image number 100,000, which was captured on Oct. 7, "shows mesas and dunes within Syrtis Major, a region about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Jezero Crater, which NASA's Perseverance rover is ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring the surface of Mars since it landed there in spectacular fashion nearly five ...

New analysis suggests that problems with NASA’s MAVEN Mars orbiter may be more serious than a simple communications glitch.

After nearly 20 years on the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has snapped its 100,000th image of the ...

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) is one of only three NASA missions currently in operation around Mars, and one ...

One of NASA’s workhorse spacecraft in orbit around Mars has fallen silent, leaving agency personnel scrambling to ...

MAVEN has circled Mars for more than a decade, exploring the planet and relaying data from robots on the surface.

NASA is assessing a troubling loss of signal from a Mars orbiter that has spent the last 11 years gathering data on how the ...

As of December 4, 2023, MAVEN has not communicated with mission control, prompting NASA to issue an update on its status. The analysis of tracking data suggests that the spacecraft is rotating ...