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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 Discovers 7 New Earth-Like Planets in Our Galaxy

The curious minds at ColdFusion reveal NASA’s discovery of seven new Earth-like planets in our galaxy. This finding expands ...

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 ...
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Watch Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket launch a NASA 'ESCAPADE' to Mars on Nov. 12 after weather delay

Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket will launch a NASA mission to Mars this weekend, and you can watch the action live.

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 is sending probes to Mars to find out why it lost its atmosphere

The ESCAPADE mission, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, is the first dual-satellite mission to another planet. Two identical spacecraft will orbit in formation to ...

Why is the Moon slowly moving away from Earth every year and what does it reveal about our planet’s future

Our Moon is slowly drifting away from Earth, not just due to tidal friction as previously thought. New research suggests ...
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Aging stars destroy their planets more often than we thought: What does this mean for Earth?

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars—twin satellites dubbed Blue and Gold will launch in early November

The first dual-satellite mission to another planet, NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers), is scheduled for launch no earlier than Sunday, Nov. 9, from Cape Canaveral ...

Here’s how orbital dynamics wizardry helped save NASA’s next Mars mission

That’s what it took to save NASA’s ESCAPADE mission from a lengthy delay, and possible cancellation, after its rocket wasn’t ready to send it toward Mars during its appointed launch window last year.

NASA’s Webb Just Found a Hidden Moon Factory Beyond Our Solar System

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.
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Mysterious 3I/ATLAS object leads NASA and Harvard to take unprecedented action in space

As 3I/ATLAS races through our solar system, NASA and Harvard take unprecedented action to study its bizarre anti-tail and ...