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 ...

Mars Sample Return was supposed to be NASA’s crowning achievement in planetary science—bringing pristine Martian rock back to Earth to search for ancient life. Instead, spiraling costs, schedule ...

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 ...

SpaceX has pursued its founder’s dream of reaching Mars for decades, but now that Elon Musk has shifted the company’s focus to the Moon, another aerospace firm appears prepared to take the lead in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blue Origin's long-awaited mission to launch its massive New Glenn rocket on a mission sending twin NASA spacecraft on a journey ...

NASA’s ESCAPADE is the first UC Berkeley-led planetary mission. Its two identical satellites will provide an unprecedented stereo view of Mars’ magnetosphere. Mapping the ionosphere and space ...

NASA has plans to send astronauts to Mars surprisingly soon, but their exact timeline is still rather vague for a number of different reasons.

NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have discovered evidence for life on the Red Planet after all, according to scientists who ...