NASA formally ended the MAVEN mission on June 3, 2026, after the Mars orbiter spent roughly six months in total silence. The ...

NASA's MAVEN Mars mission ended after 11 years, having revealed how the planet lost its atmosphere and served as a key ...

NASA has declared its MAVEN Mars orbiter dead after Red Planet anomaly led to months of lost contact.

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 ...

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 ...

NASA has declared that the MAVEN mission has ended after losing contact with its probe six months ago.

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Nasa has confirmed the MAVEN spacecraft is unrecoverable after contact was lost behind Mars in December 2025. The end of the mission closes a major data relay role, even as its archive continues to ...

Space image processing and anomalies specialist Keith Laney wasn’t looking for anything extraordinary. In 2001, while reviewing publicly available images from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), he ...

Why it matters: NASA's InSight mission began studying Mars in 2018, and it didn't stop recording and sending data until its last breath, in December 2022. That trove of scientific data continues to ...