Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twin Mars orbiters for NASA's EscaPADE mission are secured within the nose cone of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on October 31 in ...

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its surface. So, ...

Twin spacecraft are set to take off on an unprecedented, winding journey to Mars, where they will investigate why the barren red planet began to lose its atmosphere billions of years ago. Called ...

NASA's Escapade mission, run by UC Berkeley, will get to the bottom of how solar radiation strips away the tattered Martian atmosphere. Credit: James Rattray / Rocket Lab USA illustration The U.S.

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE, or Escape and ...

On November 13, NASA launched a new unmanned mission to Mars under the name ESCAPADE, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers. The launch was met with fairly little fanfare in ...

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang went to ...

A new study released by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has set the stage for future human missions to Mars. Titled A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of ...

If you were to stand on the surface of Mars in two years and look up to the night sky, you might see a bright streak flying across the heavens, followed a few minutes later by another. Rather than ...