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NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter conceded that the agency is "very unlikely" to recover its MAVEN Mars orbiter.

NASA Has Some Very Bad News About Its Mars Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of astronomers has discovered an asteroid that spins so fast, it should've torn itself apart.

Asteroid Behaving Strangely

By Victor Tangermann

For future Moon missions, South Korean scientists created a small rover with a special wheel that can expand and contract like kinetic art.

Korea Tests Ultra-Rugged Robot to Explore the Moon’s Mysterious Caves

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover set a record by driving a quarter mile in a single day, doing so autonomously.

NASA Now Letting Mars Rover Drive Autonomously

By Frank Landymore

NASA failed to reestablish contact with its MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars and hasn't received any signs of life since December 4.

NASA’s Mars Spacecraft Spinning Helplessly After Signal Lost

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance rover has just captured proof of lightning in Mars, which appears to spawn in the whirlwinds that roam its surface.

NASA Rover Captures Electric Dust Devils Wandering the Surface of Mars

By Frank Landymore

A consortium of American scientists and engineers filed a report that stridently makes the case for putting boots down on Mars.

Scientists Say the Time Has Arrived to Land Astronauts on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

In an update this week, NASA announced that it had lost signal of its MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft.

A NASA Spacecraft Orbiting Mars Just Mysteriously Went Offline

By Victor Tangermann

An unusual new rock collection discovered by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover suggests the Red Planet's ancient past was wet and tropical.

Scientists Find Evidence of Ancient Tropical Oasis on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is still not giving up hope that 3I/ATLAS could be an alien mothership and says it's too early to call it.

Harvard Scientist Suspicious About 3I/ATLAS’ Origins Fires Back at Critics

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have identified several caves carved by water and they may have held or have evidence of extraterrestrial life.

Scientist Say They’ve Found Caves on Mars That May Contain Life

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used its camera to take high-resolution images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. We have yet to see them.

NASA Withholding New Images of Mysterious Object From Beyond Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is showing signs of "non-gravitational acceleration" as it reached its perihelion.

Mysterious Interstellar Object Showing Signs of “Non-Gravitational Acceleration”

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists simulated the conditions of Mars in a lab to observe how blocks of carbon dioxide "dug" their way through the planet's dunes.

Scientists Investigate Evidence of “Burrowing” Under Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Keck II telescope observations of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS found "evidence for a puzzling anti-tail extension" pointing at the Sun.

Mysterious Interstellar Object Has Sprouted a Tendril Reaching Toward the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is gutting the Jet Propulsion Laboratory -- the storied research center that oversees all the agency's Mars rovers.

NASA Guts Workforce at Lab Responsible for Mars Rovers