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

NASA’s veteran Mars orbiter MAVEN has slipped into an unnerving quiet, cutting off a decade of continuous atmospheric ...

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A wobble in Mars' orbit could very well be a sign of dark matter, a new study posits. The study builds off the idea that dark matter may actually be made up of thousands of tiny primordial black holes ...

Bringing samples from Mars back to Earth is one of NASA's most ambitious goals. The plan goes back to the 1970s, with NASA's robotic exploration program, when the first spacecraft landed on the ...

Blue Origin scrubbed Sunday’s launch attempt due to poor weather, a cruise ship in restricted waters near the launch site, and ground system issues. The company says the next available launch ...

Research conducted by two physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US reveals that ...

On November 13, 1971, Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit Mars. At the time, scientists didn't know much about the Red Planet. NASA had several flybys before Mariner 9. Those flybys showed ...