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

A routine pass behind Mars marked the end of an era for one of NASA’s most important space missions. After more than a decade ...

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An iconic spacecraft orbiting Mars has entered its final days after more than a decade of service. But the mission was only ...

Mars does not have Earth’s kind of magnetic shield, so it has often been treated as the solar system’s more exposed world. It ...

NASA said on Wednesday it will end its mission studying Mars' atmosphere and evolution after losing contact with its MAVEN ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shannon Curry, principal investigator on NASA's MAVEN mission, about the spacecraft's decade of observations of Mars.

According to NASA, the spacecraft launched with enough fuel to keep it running until 2030, but the agency lost contact with ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft was in excellent shape when it disappeared behind Mars on December 6 of last year. The routine ...

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

Using data from NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission, scientists identified the Zwan-Wolf effect in Mars’ atmosphere. The phenomenon is known to occur ...

NASA on Wednesday announced that its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter mission has ended, almost half a ...