Pasadena, Calif. – NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor has likely finished its operating career. The spacecraft has served the longest and been the most productive of any mission ever sent to the red planet. ...

Computer coding errors apparently caused the loss of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) orbiter spacecraft last year. That was the conclusion of a ...

The winds of Mars leave their marks on many of the 11,664 new pictures being posted on the Internet today by the camera team for NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor mission. In one image, the pattern of sand ...

The bright triangle seen in these images is Spirit’s lander resting at the Gusev Crater landing site on Mars after a nerve-wracking entry, descent and landing process on Jan. 3, 2004. The left image ...

ESA's Mars Express has shed new light on the Red Planet's rare ultraviolet aurora by combining for the first time remote observations with in situ measurements of electrons hitting the atmosphere. A ...

NASA on Sept. 20 announced new discoveries about surface changes on Mars detected by the agency's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, which has been orbiting the red planet since 1997 and is now the ...

<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA scientists conceded on Tuesday that the 10-year-old Mars Global Surveyor is probably lost in space ...

Mars Surveyor May Have Fallen to Software IssueNASA is investigating the possibility that a software glitch caused the recent demise of the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. It had been orbiting Mars ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA scientists conceded on Tuesday that the 10-year-old Mars Global Surveyor is probably lost in space after the U.S. agency tried unsuccessfully for two weeks to contact the ...

The history of Spirit’s descent and landing on the surface of Mars is recorded in this image taken more than two weeks later on Jan. 19, 2004, by the camera on the orbiting Mars Global Surveyor.