Twin spacecraft are set to take off on an unprecedented, winding journey to Mars, where they will investigate why the barren red planet began to lose its atmosphere billions of years ago. Called ...

NASA's Escapade mission, run by UC Berkeley, will get to the bottom of how solar radiation strips away the tattered Martian atmosphere. Credit: James Rattray / Rocket Lab USA illustration The U.S.

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE, or Escape and ...

The ESCAPADE mission to Mars will use twin satellites containing instruments designed by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students to study the thin Martian atmosphere. Blue Origin's New Glenn ...

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 Cape Canaveral, Florida. - Stephanie Plucinsky/Blue Origin/AP Twin ...