Invisible threat disrupts NASA’s first Mars mission in 5 years

The declaration came on Wednesday, December 21, after NASA failed to make contact with the lander across two consecutive ...

NASA is sending probes to Mars to find out why it lost its atmosphere – and what that could mean for Earth

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick ...

NASA quietly sends two spacecraft to Mars — and they're going a new way

A NASA mission will send twin spacecraft to Mars to learn what happened to the Red Planet's ancient, thick atmosphere.

Here’s how orbital dynamics wizardry helped save NASA’s next Mars mission

ESCAPADE’s path through space, relative to the Earth, has the peculiar shape of a kidney bean. In the world of astrodynamics, ...
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NASA's Escapade Mission May Finally Reveal How the Martian Atmosphere Works

On Sunday, NASA's Escapade, a collaborative effort among the space agency, UC Berkeley and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, will ...

Meet Blue and Gold: NASA’s first twin satellites bound for Mars

ESCAPADE is overseen by the University of California Berkeley, who named the spacecraft’s onboard satellites Blue and Gold ...

NASA Mars scientists spur girls to 'reach for the stars'

With "one of the coolest jobs in the world", NASA rover operator Vandi Verma hopes women's high profile in the latest Mars ...
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NASA explains how they will handle Mars rock samples when they are returned to Earth

NASA’s Mars rover collected rock samples that could reveal if the planet once hosted life. Here’s what scientists plan to do ...