Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick ...
On November 18, 2013, NASA launched the MAVEN spacecraft to Mars. The name MAVEN stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile ...
Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE ...
Researcher Valentin Bickel wanted to know just how intense winds can be on the red planet. Using data obtained by the Mars ...
The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science ...
Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos, plans to challenge SpaceX with the powerful, partially reusable New Glenn rocket.
Mars is about to receive a double dose of attention. This weekend, a pair of identical NASA satellites will launch together ...
NASA’s ESCAPADE mission is set to launch two small satellites, built by Rocket Lab, into Mars’ orbit to investigate the ...
The New Glenn rocket lifted off about 45 minutes later than scheduled due to an unplanned hold with 20 seconds to go.
Searching for life on other planets requires more than just measuring their distances from their stars. A future NASA ...
It's not entirely clear how neighboring planet Mars went from a presumably life-supporting planet to a place as dead as all others in the solar system. We do know, however, that whatever water and ...
This artist’s concept shows the volatile red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 and its four most closely orbiting planets, all of which ...