Time is running out for the recovery team before Earth and Mars move to opposite sides of the Sun on December 29, triggering ...

NASA monitors MAVEN spacecraft after December 6 signal loss, coordinating recovery with Deep Space Network. Mars solar conjunction from December 29 to January 16 will pause communications.

Mars will disappear from Earth's sky for two weeks starting Saturday. It's solar conjunction, during which the sun obscures Mars and Earth from one another. Solar conjunction happens once every two ...

NASA’s Mars exploration robots will be on their own for the next two weeks while the space agency waits out a natural phenomenon that will prevent normal communications. Mars and Earth have reached ...

NASA is facing significant challenges in attempting to reestablish contact with the MAVEN spacecraft, which has been out of communication for several weeks. The Mars orbiter, which has been studying ...