NASA: Mars Global Surveyor Dead
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The longest-lasting orbiter of another world falls silent. Scientists lose hope of reviving  NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, blaming a faulty solar panel for the loss. In Gear Factor.
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Blog: Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin says technology and life-support aren't enough to sustain a round-trip tour to Mars from a base on the moon.
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Maxime &quot;Max&quot; Faget, an intuitive engineer who became the chief architect of NASA&#39;s Mercury capsule and a key contributor to the design of three other manned spacecraft, has died.
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The team behind Beagle 2, the failed mission to land on Mars and search for life, have unveiled plans for a successor. Professor Colin Pillinger, lead
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And this is Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we have a report about NASAâs two exploration vehicles on the surface of Mars.
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The quest to find traces of life on Mars looks gloomy after Nasa says the Red Planet was 'too salty'.
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By ALICIA CHANG  SAN FRANCISCO - The chief scientist behind the twin Mars rovers said he supports a human presence on the moon, but hopes the journey won't dead-end there.
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Pioneering NASA engineer Maxime Faget, who designed the Project Mercury capsule that carried the first U.S. astronauts into space and worked on every subsequent manned spacecraft including the space shuttle, has died at the age of 83, NASA said on Sunday.
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Maxime A. Faget, 83, a retired NASA aeronautical engineer whose innovative designs contributed greatly to manned spacecraft from Mercury to the space shuttle, died of cancer Oct. 10 at his home in Houston.
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SPACE.com / BOULDER, Colorado - Ground controllers today successfully performed a major maneuver of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MOR)--an "end game" tactic that puts the orbiting probe a step closer to studying the red planet with its entire suite of science sensors.
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WASHINGTON Gordon Cooper, the astronaut who flew the last of the pioneering Mercury space missions and stayed aloft in a Gemini capsule long enough to demonstrate that a trip to the moon was feasible, died at his home in Ventura, California, NASA announced
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NASA said Wednesday it was investigating problems with two instruments aboard the most powerful spacecraft ever flown to Mars. The problems on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arose late last year, but recently worsened to the point where engineers have stowed one of the instruments.
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The hunt for evidence of life on Mars will go underground next year when a NASA probe digs beneath the surface of the red planet&#39;s arctic northern plains, US scientists revealed Monday.
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Scientists name an asteroid after the professor responsible for the failed Beagle 2 mission to Mars.
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HOUSTON, March 7  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Navy Capt. Lisa Nowak's detail as a NASA astronaut has been terminated, effective March 8, by mutual agreement between NASA and the U.S. Navy.
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NASA&#39;s high hopes for a clean reading of the Sun&#39;s atomic signature seemed dead Wednesday after the 450-pound Genesis spacecraft came tumbling down in Utah, where it landed with a terrible thud.
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Mars, the red planet, may not after all be the dead planet. New research today by European scientists suggests that volcanoes on Mars last erupted only 2 million years ago and could erupt again.