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. ...

A recently resurfaced image taken byNASA’s Mars Global Surveyor is reigniting public fascination with the Red Planet. The photo, which shows what appears to be a square-like formation on the Martian ...

Engineers are striving to restore full communications with NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor on the 10th anniversary of the spacecraft’s Nov. 7, 1996, launch. The orbiter is the oldest of five NASA ...

In words and somber tones usually associated with a death in the family, engineers and scientists said Tuesday that Mars Global Surveyor, the most durable spacecraft ever to orbit that planet, had ...

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 ...

On November 7, 1996, NASA launched its Mars Global Surveyor mission. This was the first mission NASA sent to Mars in almost 20 years. The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft was an orbiter. It transmitted ...

A layer of solid carbon dioxide blankets the cone-shaped feature under the northern ice cap of Mars, shown here as captured in springtime on the planet by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor. Despite its ...

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 ...

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 ...