New Scientist

Mars may once have had a much larger moon

There are two small moons in orbit around Mars today, but both may be remnants of a much larger moon that had enough of a gravitational pull to drive tides in the Red Planet's lost lakes and seas ...

NASA loses contact with Mars orbiter. What to know about MAVEN mission

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. Here's what we know.

Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like? Research using machine learning offers a new way

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...
Hackaday

NASA May Have Lost The MAVEN Mars Orbiter

When the orbit of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft took it behind the Red Planet on December ...

Rocket Report: Neutron’s Hungry Hippo is deemed ready, Whither Orbex?

Avio will build solid rocket motors in Virginia. The governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, announced Wednesday that Avio USA ...

NASA Loses Contact with Spacecraft That's Been Orbiting Mars for Over a Decade

NASA announced that it lost contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft after it orbited ...

NASA taps UAB for $37 million contract for lunar, Mars missions

UAB’s School of Engineering has secured a NASA contract to support America’s return to the moon. The schools Engineering and ...
The Debrief

NASA Says an “Anomaly” Has Led to Sudden Signal Loss with One of Its Spacecraft Orbiting Mars

This week, NASA revealed that one of its spacecraft currently in orbit around Mars has inexplicably lost signal due to an "anomaly." ...

NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the last decade

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly ...
Futurism

Scientists Say the Time Has Arrived to Land Astronauts on Mars

A consortium of American scientists and engineers filed a report that stridently makes the case for putting boots down on ...

NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the past decade

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ...
SpaceNews

Report identifies science objectives of human Mars exploration

The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National ...