NASA launched the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in August 2005 and the following year, on March 10, it entered the orbit of the red planet where it continues to operate today. Data returned to Earth by ...

The spacecraft that has quietly rewritten our understanding of Mars just crossed a very visible milestone: the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured its 100,000th close-up view of the Red Planet.

NASA is working to re-establish contact with its MAVEN spacecraft after ground controllers unexpectedly lost signal with the Mars orbiter on 6 December, an incident that comes just weeks after the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This view of a region called Syrtis Major is from the 100,000th image captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its ...

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 ...

Since NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived at Mars in 2006, the spacecraft has delivered some of the most detailed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Mars spacecraft that has been orbiting the red planet for more than a decade has now been AWOL for more than a month. NASA first ...

ESPOO, Finland — China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission is entering flight hardware development, targeting a late 2028 launch to seek out biosignatures on the Red Planet. The mission has ...

NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN orbiter has gone silent after more than a decade of groundbreaking research, leaving engineers scrambling to determine what went wrong with the reliable ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) officially went into ...