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NASA's new Mars mission: These twin satellites could reveal how the Red Planet lost its atmosphere

Mars is about to receive a double dose of attention. This weekend, a pair of identical NASA satellites will launch together ...
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NASA is quietly sending two spacecraft to Mars

A Mars mission is typically a high-profile, high-budget spectacle — but not this one. Without the usual fanfare, NASA is ...

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

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick ...
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'This all must end now.' NASA lab closures at Goddard Space Flight Center under Congressional scrutiny

Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, demands that NASA must cease ...
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Mars orbiter spies 'barcode' aftermath of rare Red Planet avalanche caused by meteoroid impact

On Christmas Eve in 2023, a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft captured what looks like a barcode etched into the rusty ...

NASA's Astronomers Reveal Red Giant Stars May Destroy Their Own Planets

This extreme expansion poses a serious threat to nearby planets. For example, when the Sun becomes a red giant in about 5 ...

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, ...

Mars Once Had Changing Lakes: NASA Reveals Signs Of Life-Friendly Water Phases In Jezero Crater

NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered remarkable new evidence about Mars watery past, showing that the Jezero Crater once ...

Trump’s NASA pick has the space community buzzing with a leaked plan for the agency

A 62-page document written by billionaire Jared Isaacman outlines a sweeping, ambitious, and at times controversial plan for ...

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 ...

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.