MAVEN (short for "Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution") has been silent since Dec. 4, despite repeated efforts to hail the ...

Image number 100,000, which was captured on Oct. 7, "shows mesas and dunes within Syrtis Major, a region about 50 miles (80 ...

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

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft went dark earlier this month while it was observing 3I/ATLAS, which some thought was an alien ...

This could be the end of the orbiter that studies the Red Planet’s atmosphere and relays communications between NASA and its ...

A NASA spacecraft that has been doing laps around Mars for more than a decade has gone silent – and no one knows why. The ...

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

With one of NASA's most data-rich Martian orbiters of the 21st century in distress, now is as good a time as ever to remember ...

Maven is the newest NASA probe in orbit around Mars, but it has been there for 11 years. Now the orbiter has simply stopped ...

Maven, launched in 2013, entered Mars' orbit in September 2014 to study the upper atmosphere and its interaction with the ...

In 2022, NASA lost contact with MAVEN after it rebooted a navigational instrument. Mission boffins placed the probe in Safe ...

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 surface. So, ...