NASA faces a crucial choice on a Mars spacecraft—and it must decide soon

What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue ...

NASA attempts to restore contact with AWOL orbiter launched in Florida

A Mars spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, has been AWOL. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact ...
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Will NASA be able to restore communication with MAVEN Mars orbiter?

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 ...
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AI on Mars? NASA rover just drove across the Red Planet with no humans

For the first time, a Mars rover has crossed alien ground following a route drawn up not by human engineers, but by artificial intelligence. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover recently completed a set of ...