Maven spacecraft

(Newser) - A long-running Mars orbiter that outlived its original mission by a decade has gone silent, and NASA isn't sure it can bring it back. The agency on Monday confirmed it hasn't received telemetry from the MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft since Dec. 4. Space.com reports...

(Newser) - NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven stopped communicating to ground stations without warning over the weekend, the AP reports. NASA said this week that the craft was working fine before it went behind the red planet. When it reappeared,...

(Newser) - After 442 million miles and a year on the space road, Maven has finally reached its destination. The NASA spacecraft successfully completed a harrowing 30-minute "orbital insertion" into Mars' orbit last night, the AP reports. "I don't have any fingernails any more, but we've made it,...