The way this document is written suggests that when NASA scores bidders for the Mars Telecommunications Network, the addition ...

NASA has provided new details about its plans to procure a Mars communications orbiter funded under last year’s budget ...

NASA is still trying to recontact the MAVEN Mars orbiter after it stopped responding earlier this month, with fragmentary tracking data hinting the craft may be tumbling and off its predicted ...

Launch windows to the red planet are rare and dictated by orbital positions. This constraint has long dictated the rhythm of missions, imposing waits of several years between each opportunity. However ...

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NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars for over a decade. The loss of signal occurred on Dec. 6 as the orbiter passed behind Mars from Earth's perspective. MAVEN ...

China launched a rover to Mars on Thursday, a journey coinciding with a similar US mission as the powers take their rivalry into deep space. The two countries are taking advantage of a period when ...

The United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday that it would extend its Mars probe mission, now in its fifth year, for an additional three, underlining the oil-rich state's space ambitions.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, carrying a pair of NASA's ESCAPADE spacecraft, sits on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

Blue Origin launched its second heavy-lift New Glenn rocket Thursday, putting two small NASA satellites onto a long, looping course to Mars to learn more about how the sun has slowly blown away the ...

This is the story of Beagle 2, a plucky Mars probe that everyone thought failed at the last minute. But the story is a lot more complicated ...

Searching for past or present life on Mars is the sole driving force behind every mission we send to the red planet, from orbiters to landers to rovers. However, there remains a concern in the ...