NASA has officially ended the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, six months after it lost contact with the probe. MAVEN was the agency's first program dedicated to studying the ...

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. On Wednesday, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, science fiction writers from Andy Weir to Ray Bradbury have vividly imagined what it would be like if humans were to ...

The first human Mars explorers won’t have it easy. Every additional day in deep space will increase their exposure to deadly cosmic radiation, while isolation gnaws at their minds and microgravity ...

Jessica Watkins continues to break barriers in space exploration after adding a second mission to the International Space Station (ISS) as commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission. Watkins, a ...

NASA MAVEN has officially reached the end of its active mission after more than a decade spent studying the upper atmosphere of Mars. As a dedicated Mars orbiter, it played a central role in advancing ...

After six months of radio silence, NASA's Maven spacecraft around Mars has been declared dead. The space agency confirmed Wednesday that the mission had ended after more than a decade of observations.

The spacecraft aced its encounter with Mars. Now mission scientists are studying a trove of data from the flyby in preparation for its arrival at asteroid Psyche in 2029. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft flew ...