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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA Scrambles After Veteran Mars Spacecraft Mysteriously Goes Dark

NASA has lost contact with one of its longtime Mars workhorses after the spacecraft abruptly stopped communicating. Maven was ...

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 behind Mars on Dec. 6.

After 11 years in the orbit, NASA loses signal with Mars orbiter "MAVEN"

NASA confirms Mars orbiter MAVEN went offline. Engineers analyse the spacecraft, using other orbiters as backups to maintain ...

MAVEN suddenly goes silent around Mars: Inside NASA’s effort to bring spacecraft back

A communication blackout temporarily silenced NASA's MAVEN orbiter, a crucial source of data on Mars' atmosphere. Engineers are working to recover the ...
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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 ...

NASA loses contact with MAVEN spacecraft after a decade in Mars orbit

NASA loses contact with MAVEN spacecraft after a decade of studying Mars, prompting investigations into the sudden ...
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NASA’s latest Mars mission could reveal why the red planet dried out

Mars once looked far more like Earth, with a thicker atmosphere and liquid water pooling on its surface, yet today it is a ...
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Scientists map of old Mars river basins for the 1st time. These could be great places to search for ancient life

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...