Mars 3 holds a strange place in space history: it was the first spacecraft to soft-land on Mars, yet its triumph lasted just seconds before silence. The lander managed to transmit a fragmentary image ...

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 lost contact with its MAVEN orbiter at the beginning of December.

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 ...

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and has a distinct rusty red appearance and two unusual moons. The Red Planet is a cold, desert world within our solar system. It has a very thin atmosphere, but ...

As the Orion, the world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, counts down to circumnavigating the Moon, that trek could be the forerunner to a cascade of Mars missions in the 2030s. Shown here is a ...

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 ...

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 ...