NASA has officially ended the MAVEN mission after failing to reestablish contact with the spacecraft.

A routine pass behind Mars marked the end of an era for one of NASA’s most important space missions. After more than a decade ...

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency’s Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching spacecraft and a supercharged upper atmosphere. In May 2024, Earth was hit ...

Mars is about 140 million miles from our cozy planet. A human mission to that cold, rocky neighbor would mean being away from Earth for about 3 years. But the things those explorers would see and ...