NASA names 4 astronauts for next Artemis mission

NASA's Artemis III astronauts plan to carry out rendezvous and docking procedures with commercial moon landers being built by SpaceX and Blue Origin.
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Like 'the loss of a loved one': NASA's Mars orbiter MAVEN is officially dead after months of radio silence

NASA has declared its MAVEN Mars orbiter dead after Red Planet anomaly led to months of lost contact.

A NASA orbiter around Mars suffered an abrupt demise

To make up for Maven's lost relay capacity, Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and European orbiters have adjusted their operations. NASA also plans a new Mars Telecommunications Network in the 2030s, with help from commercial partners, to provide more robust communications and navigation services for future robotic and human missions.

NASA Just Delivered the Mars Orbiter Update Nobody Wanted to Hear

According to NASA, the spacecraft launched with enough fuel to keep it running until 2030, but the agency lost contact with MAVEN after it emerged from behind Mars on December 6. Telemetry data showed that all its subsystems had been working normally prior to the loss of signal, but attempts to reestablish contact were unsuccessful.
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NASA's dead Mars orbiter MAVEN will crash into the Red Planet in the next 100 years

NASA just declared its MAVEN Mars orbiter dead after a dozen productive years circling the Red Planet. Here's the fate that awaits the probe.