Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This view of a region called Syrtis Major is from the 100,000th image captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its ...

A few months from now, a NASA spacecraft called the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) will begin its 20th year of observing the Red Planet from above. And, like most 20-year-olds on Earth, MRO's ...

The 100,000th image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been flying ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has made a historic leap in its mission to understand the Red Planet. With its HiRISE camera now having captured its 100,000th image, this milestone provides ...

Before-and-after images taken with the Context Camera (CTX) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the impact site on Jan. 16, 2012, at left, and on April 6, 2014, at right. [Read the Full Story] ...

NASA's sharp-eyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) just notched a big milestone. MRO's HiRISE ("High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment") camera has now snapped 100,000 photos of the surface of ...

MAVEN was built to last in orbit until 2030 — that's not looking likely anymore.

A Mars spacecraft has now been AWOL for more than a month. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The orbiter, one of three zooming around Mars' atmosphere, had been working as expected before it ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has orbited Mars for over a decade. MAVEN, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, ...