Mars once looked far more like Earth, with a thicker atmosphere and liquid water pooling on its surface, yet today it is a ...

Nasa has lost contact with a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than ten years. The spacecraft, named Maven, ...

NASA is hoping to answer questions about alien life by sending humans to Mars in the 2030s for the very first time, but it ...

The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National ...

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 ...

Liftoff of the ESCAPADE mission is now scheduled for Thursday (Nov. 13) at 2:57 p.m. ET. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After a year of delay, NASA's next Mars mission is ready to launch on Blue Origin's ...

Blue Origin's long-awaited mission to launch its massive New Glenn rocket on a mission sending twin NASA spacecraft on a journey to Mars will have to wait a little longer. New Glenn, one of the ...

Update: Blue Origin postponed the launch, with the next opportunity coming Wednesday, Nov. 12. For more information, read here. Blue Origin is preparing to launch its massive New Glenn rocket on just ...

Nasa’s mission teams use extreme environments to trial equipment and procedures for future lunar and planetary exploration.

'We want to begin to learn how to live away from the Earth.' As NASA prepares to put astronauts on the moon in the next few years, the agency is thinking about "how to live and operate away from the ...

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 ...