May 30, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you ...

This week's science news.

NASA has declared that the MAVEN mission has ended after losing contact with its probe six months ago.

The agency last heard from the spacecraft on December 6. Recovered fragmentary data suggest that MAVEN was spinning ...

NASA on Wednesday announced that its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter mission has ended, almost half a ...

The space agency announced that the MAVEN spacecraft, which has circled Mars for more than a decade, is being decommissioned. By Katrina Miller On Wednesday, NASA announced the end of a more than ...

Efforts to communicate with MAVEN since then have been unsuccessful, according to an agency release, and NASA officials held ...

MAVEN was the first successful mission designed to study the atmosphere of Mars. It also became a vital node of NASA’s ...

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. On Wednesday, ...

Opinion: The Trump administration’s proposed cuts to satellite funding threaten to take away decades of science, silence ...

Almost six months after NASA lost contact with the spacecraft, the agency has declared the MAVEN satellite unrecoverable and ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft was in excellent shape when it disappeared behind Mars on December 6 of last year. The routine ...