Mars is a dusty planet dominated by vast, dry deserts, with no easily accessible sources of liquid water. Much like on Earth, dust is lifted from Mars's surface by wind and rotating air columns, ...

Dust storms regularly affect northern China, including its capital Beijing. In recent years, Chinese scientists and officials ...

As of December 4, 2023, MAVEN has not communicated with mission control, prompting NASA to issue an update on its status. The analysis of tracking data suggests that the spacecraft is rotating ...

A new report emphasizes that the primary objective of future human missions to Mars should be actively searching for signs of life.

The aim is to establish better coordination between astronauts, robotic missions, and artificial intelligence.

Scientists with NASA have lost contact with a spacecraft that’s investigated Mars’ upper atmosphere for the past decade. The MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft reportedly worked ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has just captured proof of lightning in Mars, which appears to spawn in the whirlwinds that roam its surface.

NASA has lost contact with MAVEN — a spacecraft that’s been orbiting Mars for over a decade. Just after passing behind the Red Planet on December 6, MAVEN went dark. It had been sending back ...

NASA is probing a sudden loss of contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter after rare 3I/ATLAS data, raising questions about timing ...

The blueprint outlines the equipment, landing-site criteria and environmental constraints that will determine what is ...

The MAVEN spacecraft – Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution – abruptly lost contact with Earth on 6 December 2025 while passing behind the red planet in the normal course of its orbit. When MAVEN re ...

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