An iconic spacecraft orbiting Mars has entered its final days after more than a decade of service. But the mission was only ...
NASA's Maven spacecraft around Mars has been declared dead after six months of radio silence ...
It may seem like we are on the verge of discovering alien life. In 2025, a press release stated that we have the "strongest ...
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft was in excellent shape when it disappeared behind Mars on December 6 of last year. The routine ...
To make up for Maven's lost relay capacity, Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and European orbiters have adjusted ...
Over more than a decade at Mars, the orbiter revealed how the solar wind strips away the planet’s atmosphere — and why the ...
SpaceX tapped cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang to lead a private crewed mission around Mars and the moon. Here's ...
In 1976, NASA’s Viking landers scooped up Martian soil and fed it radioactive nutrients to see whether anything inside would ...
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 ...
NASA has confirmed its MAVEN spacecraft is officially dead after losing contact with the probe in December. An anomaly in the ...
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft just used Mars as a giant gravitational slingshot to continue its journey toward a strange metal rich asteroid. The close flyby boosted the spacecraft’s speed by about 1,000 ...
Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. On Wednesday, ...