December is an exciting month for those who like to look up, with a comet, a meteor shower, and a conjunction between the ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has recorded the sounds of electrical discharges —sparks — and mini-sonic booms in dust devils on Mars. Long theorized, the phenomenon has now been confirmed through ...

The first dual-satellite mission to another planet, NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers), is scheduled for launch no earlier than Sunday, Nov. 9, from Cape Canaveral ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches its new orbital rocket for the first time with two NASA satellites that will fly to Mars to study the red planet’s atmosphere.

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 ...

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 ...

Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket on its first-ever interplanetary mission on Thursday, sending twin NASA spacecraft on their way to Mars. Minutes after deployment, the ...

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 ...

Blue Origin is now working toward a launch of its New Glenn rocket on Nov. 12 from Florida's Space Coast along the Atlantic. Blue Origin will provide a live webcast of the rocket launch on its website ...

The ESCAPADE mission to Mars will use twin satellites containing instruments designed by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students to study the thin Martian atmosphere. Blue Origin's New Glenn ...

At this point, sending probes to Mars has almost become routine, but the ESCAPADE mission is showing that there's always a ...

The mission will be the second launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket. Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere ...