Twin spacecraft are set to take off on an unprecedented, winding journey to Mars, where they will investigate why the barren red planet began to lose its atmosphere billions of years ago. Called ...

In a daring new chapter of space exploration, NASA is all set to launch its pioneering ESCAPADE mission - an ambitious project aimed at solving one of Mars’ oldest mysteries: How and why did the Red ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE, or Escape and ...

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its surface. So, ...

NASA's Escapade mission, run by UC Berkeley, will get to the bottom of how solar radiation strips away the tattered Martian atmosphere. Credit: James Rattray / Rocket Lab USA illustration The U.S.

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 ...

A new study released by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has set the stage for future human missions to Mars. Titled A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twin Mars orbiters for NASA's EscaPADE mission are secured within the nose cone of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on October 31 in ...