A pair of small satellites launched aboard a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket last week, bound for Mars. The first dual-satellite mission to another planet, NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration ...

(NEW YORK) — 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 ...

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 ...

Sending anything to Mars is a much more difficult process than it seems. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union tried (and failed) in its first nine consecutive attempts, and the US was only able to succeed ...