NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) is a pair of spacecraft that will study space weather ...

Over the course of three days in early April, the University of Wyoming Department of Atmospheric Science took advantage of ...

You're in the lab analyzing Martian regolith samples within your cozy Mars habitat serving on the fifth human mission to Mars ...

NASA has completed a new series of tests on a high-power plasma engine fueled by liquid lithium, reaching record performance ...

Researchers identified a species that can survive radiation, extreme heat and simulated Martian soil, posing a new challenge ...

Scientists have long known that fungi are resilient, but a new study suggests that some strains might survive every step of ...

NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance rovers are exploring opposite sides of Mars, revealing new clues about ancient water and ...

Electric propulsion is increasingly looking like the technology that will underlie a first attempt to walk on the Red Planet.

Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have developed a new thruster that increases power 25 times stronger than ...

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that Mars exerts a subtle yet measurable influence on Earth’s orbit, ...

As space missions to Mars gain momentum, scientists are looking beyond rockets and landing systems. There is a growing focus ...

NASA fired up a prototype of its electromagnetic thruster inside a vacuum chamber, reaching power levels of up to 120 ...