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NASA loses contact with MAVEN, its Mars orbiter studying the planet's atmosphere, after a decade of successful operations.

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

No regular data had been received for around two weeks. A short fragment indicates that the probe may have rotated in an ...

This week’s Hackaday Podcast sees Elliot Williams joined by Jenny List for an all-European take on the week, and have we got some hacks for you! In the news this week is NASA’s Maven ...

Scientists have been cataloging comet 3I/ATLAS’s journey through the Solar System since July, tracking major milestones as ...

Mars changed from a blue world with water to a red desert because its atmosphere escaped into space over billions of years.

The Ursids peak Sunday night into Monday morning and will be visible until Dec. 26 from the Northern Hemisphere. Skygazers ...

3I/ATLAS, Humanity — and the MAVEN Anomaly: A Challenge for NASA and ESA. On Friday, December 19, the interstellar object ...

NASA failed to reestablish contact with its MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars and hasn't received any signs of life since December 4.

NASA revealed that new data showed MAVEN was rotating in an unexpected way after it emerged from the far side of Mars ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, a 33-billion-ton object that's older than our solar system, will make its closest approach to Earth on Friday. Scientists are ...