MAVEN

The solar wind is constant in the solar system – except on Christmas Day 2022 when it suddenly vanished completely. The event was detected by a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars, which found that the Red Planet’s magnetosphere tripled in size in response.

A NASA spacecraft has observed a pulsing glow coming from Mars. Huge spots of ultraviolet light were seen in the night sky, pulsing with uncanny regularity – exactly three times every night. The find highlights the Red Planet's atmospheric processes.

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter is taking on a new job as it shifts into a lower orbit to act as a communications relay for the Mars 2020 mission slated to launch next year.

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) Mars orbiter was forced to take evasive action this week. On February 28​, NASA ordered the unmanned spacecraft to fire its main engine, boosting its velocity by 0.4 m/s (1.31 ft/s)​ to prevent a potential collision with the Martian moon Phobos.

Car manufacturers are getting into the business of moving people without selling them a car. Within GM, that push led to the creation of Maven. New Atlas spoke with Deric Harwood, Head of Maven Chicago about ride sharing, and how it's helping develop autonomous cars.

​​NASA has released a number of global ultraviolet images of Mars, constructed from data harvested by the agency's MAVEN spacecraft.

​Although you could bake a pizza on its surface today, Venus was once cool enough to hold water on its surface. Of course, as the planet heated, that water turned to vapor and should now be trapped in Venus' dense atmosphere. But it's not, and an electric wind is likely to blame.

Mars is thought to have once had a thicker atmosphere, but detected levels of carbon don't play nice with atmospheric loss theories. Now, a team of researchers believes it may have solved the problem, with a new theory that explains the issue by means of two simultaneous mechanisms.​​

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has detected an aurora occurring deep in the Martian atmosphere, and an as of yet unexplained high altitude dust cloud.

Lockheed Martin's proposal for NASA's CRS-2 program uses new cargo ships, which are designed to not only resupply the International Space Station, but also support manned deep space missions, such as the first expedition to Mars.

NASA’S Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter has taken its first deep dive into the Martian atmosphere, Part of a series of five deep-dip maneuvers by the unmanned spacecraft, its purpose was to gather information about the lower limits of the upper regions of the atmosphere.

NASA'S Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) Mars orbiter is providing new insights into the loss of the Martian atmosphere by discovering how the solar winds penetrate to surprisingly low altitudes.