Mars once looked far more like Earth, with a thicker atmosphere and liquid water pooling on its surface, yet today it is a frozen desert where even a thin wisp of air struggles to hold on. NASA’s ...
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 ...
Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of hundreds of scientists back on Earth, the Perseverance rover has traveled ...
The new Rover Operations Center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is more than a fresh control room, it is a deliberate attempt to rethink how robotic explorers are designed, tested, and driven ...
NASA has launched its latest mission to study Mars, with a little push from Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin. Hitching a ride on a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket, NASA's pair of Escapade (Escape ...
NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars for over a decade. The loss of signal occurred on Dec. 6 as the orbiter passed behind Mars from Earth's perspective. MAVEN ...
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 ...
On Thursday 3:55 p.m. EST, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission, led by UC Berkeley researchers, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, en route to Mars ...
NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission ...