For more than a month, all attempts to reconnect with MAVEN, one of three active orbiters around Mars, have failed.

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Those concerned that 3I/ATLAS' arrival to our solar system meant that some sort of alien invasion was imminent can breathe a ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence may not be a cheerful greeting. A growing group of researchers is ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveals ancient secrets and strange chemistry as the largest object of its kind ever tracked.

Today, Mars is known as the red planet, for its rust-colored desert landscape. Once upon a time, Mars was a very different place. It had complex waterways and, possibly, ancient aliens. Researchers ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

NASA's sharp-eyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) just notched a big milestone. MRO's HiRISE ("High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment") camera has now snapped 100,000 photos of the surface of ...

MAVEN's handlers haven't heard from the probe since Dec. 4. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Things aren't looking good for one of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...