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The first astronauts who walk on Mars are now being told to go as planetary detectives, not just pathfinders. A sweeping new ...

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

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Even worse, the orbit of Mars is elliptical (think of a slight oval rather than a perfect circle), which means that sometimes ...

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

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

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

NASA has lost contact with MAVEN, a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than 11 years and one of only three ...

MAVEN has circled Mars for more than a decade, exploring the planet and relaying data from robots on the surface.

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