Over more than a decade at Mars, the orbiter revealed how the solar wind strips away the planet’s atmosphere — and why the world lost its water.

A phenomenon, thought impossible on Mars, compresses its atmosphere like squeezing a tube of toothpaste. Dubbed Zwan-Wolf, ...

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NASA has ended its MAVEN mission after losing contact with the spacecraft after an 11-year exploration of Mars’ atmosphere and climate.

MAVEN was the first successful mission designed to study the atmosphere of Mars. It also became a vital node of NASA’s communications network at the Red Planet ...

To make up for Maven's lost relay capacity, Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and European orbiters have adjusted their operations. NASA also plans a new Mars Telecommunications Network in ...

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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - NASA announced on Tuesday the end of the mission of its MAVEN spacecraft, which spent more than 11 years orbiting Mars to study the atmosphere of Earth's ...

NASA has selected Eric Schmidt-backed Relativity Space for its Aeolus Mars mission. The spacecraft, set to launch in 2028, ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over how Mars lost the thick atmosphere it once had. That atmosphere was essential for liquid water to exist on the planet's surface, billions of years ago. Today, ...

It's not entirely clear how neighboring planet Mars went from a presumably life-supporting planet to a place as dead as all others in the solar system. We do know, however, that whatever water and ...