NASA’s latest Mars mission is not taking the familiar highway. Instead of a direct cruise along the classic Hohmann transfer, ...

It's been more than two years since American space agency NASA announced who would lift the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission off the ground, and about a year ...

NASA is sending two spacecraft to Mars on their new ESCAPADE mission to reveal how space weather robbed it of its atmosphere and turned it dry ...

NASA's long-planned Mars Sample Return mission is in serious trouble. A flagship endeavor meant to retrieve rock samples collected by the Perseverance rover is now facing budget cuts, delays, and some ...

Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of ...

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 ...

ESCAPADE, the first ever UC Berkeley-led planetary mission, is set to launch in early November, with scientists expecting to receive the first data from space within a few months of the launch. Short ...

The crew will conduct high-tempo simulated Marswalks outside the habitat in spacesuits, traverse a simulated Martian environment with red sand, maintain the habitat, perform robotic operations.

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 ...