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

The ESCAPADE mission, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, is the first dual-satellite mission to ...

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.

Trump again taps tech billionaire Jared Isaacman to lead NASA after previously pulling nomination

President Donald Trump is nominating tech billionaire Jared Isaacman for a second time to serve as administrator of NASA, he ...

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, ...

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 ...

What Happened To NASA's Kepler Space Telescope?

The Kepler space telescope is the source of more exoplanet discoveries than any other telescope, so why haven't we heard ...

Blue Origin will ‘move heaven and Earth’ to help NASA reach the Moon faster, CEO says

“We just want to help the US get to the Moon,” said Dave Limp, CEO of the space company founded by Jeff Bezos. “If NASA wants ...
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NASA Administrator Nominee Would Shift Future of Space Exploration

Ahead of Jared Isaacman’s renomination for the position of NASA’s administrator, a dispute between him and its acting chief ...