In a departure from its usual high-profile launches, NASA has embarked on a quieter journey to Mars with the launch of two spacecraft as part of the Escapade mission. This mission not only marks a ...

Elon Musk has updated SpaceX’s Mars mission timeline, reducing the likelihood of a Starship launch to the Red Planet by 2026. Once considered a feasible goal, the mission now has only a slight chance ...

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 ...

SpaceX has had a troubled year when it comes to Starship, with several notably explosive test flights. But that hasn't stopped customers queuing up to pay for passage for when it is ready. The Italian ...

Musk wants to send the first uncrewed Starship to Mars by the end of 2026, followed by human spaceflights in the years after. The first humans on Mars would be tasked with laying the groundwork to ...

Mars is cold, has a very strong radiation environment, no magnetic field, a very low-pressure atmosphere and it’s all carbon dioxide, so you can’t breathe there. And there are no nutrients to grow ...

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 idea that humans could one day populate and even colonize Mars is one no longer confined to the realm of science fiction. Billionaire Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 with the vision of paving the ...