What makes Mars' magnetotail flap? Two spacecraft point to magnetic reconnection

The sun continuously blasts charged, magnetic field-carrying particles, or plasma, in all directions. This solar wind ...
AOL

A NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars may be dead

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...
MIT Technology Review

NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft. How will it work?

Just before Artemis II began its historic slingshot around the moon, Jared Isaacman, the recently confirmed NASA ...

NASA plans nuclear powered spacecraft to explore Mars by 2028

NASA plans to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars by 2028, a major step for deep space exploration and its planned ...
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NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is still silent at Mars — and apparently is spinning, too

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America's nuclear spacecraft is heading to Mars, and it's bringing helicopters

For decades, nuclear propulsion has been a fixture of aerospace engineering proposals and government studies, always promising, never quite leaving the laboratory. That changes in 2028. NASA announced ...