Even though the Red Planet's atmosphere is thin, wind is still one of Mars' most relentless sculptors.

Jezero Crater is the home of NASA's Perseverance rover. See a bird's-eye view of the crater with this animated flyover ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

A University of Arizona-led team using a camera orbiting Mars has captured the closest images yet of an interstellar comet so rare that it has sparked wild speculation about its alien origins. The ...

Several other threatened programs may now have a better chance of staying funded, but the move indefinitely postpones our best chance to find life beyond Earth.

MAVEN was built to last in orbit until 2030 — that's not looking likely anymore.

Scientists haven't heard from the MAVEN orbiter since December 6. It had been studying the Martian atmosphere for over a decade ...

NASA lost contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter in December 2025 after more than a decade of operation. A solar conjunction, where Mars and Earth are on opposite sides of the sun, has temporarily ...

NASA lost contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter in early December and has been unable to reconnect with the vehicle. NASA plans to resume efforts to hail the spacecraft now that the solar conjunction ...

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 ...