For a couple of weeks during October 2006, Mars and Earth will be on opposite sides of the Sun. Every day for the past decade, the U.S. has had a presence at Mars, using spacecraft to understand this ...

NASA has decided to temporarily halt sending commands to its Mars fleet from November 11 to 25, as the Earth, the Sun, and the Red Planet align in a phenomenon known as Mars solar conjunction. This ...

NASA’s Mars exploration robots will be on their own for the next two weeks while the space agency waits out a natural phenomenon that will prevent normal communications. Mars and Earth have reached ...

Mars will disappear from Earth's sky for two weeks starting Saturday. It's solar conjunction, during which the sun obscures Mars and Earth from one another. Solar conjunction happens once every two ...