NASA has not reestablished contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter since a planned communications blackout ended Jan. 16.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Mars spacecraft that has been orbiting the red planet for more than a decade has now been AWOL for more than a month. NASA first ...

NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission ...

WASHINGTON — NASA has lost contact with a Mars orbiter that has circled the planet for more than a decade, collecting science data and serving as a key communications relay. In a statement late Dec. 9 ...

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A Mars spacecraft that has been orbiting the red planet for more than a decade has now been AWOL for more than a month. NASA first lost contact with its MAVEN orbiter at the beginning of December.