Russia is testing a plasma engine prototype designed to slash Mars travel time to just 60 days. Developed by Rosatom’s ...
After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has finally begun its roundabout journey to Mars. Launched on Nov. 13, 2025, ...
In a discovery that has intrigued space scientists worldwide, NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) satellites have detected chorus waves—electromagnetic plasma bursts—over 62,000 miles from Earth, ...
On March 12, 2015, NASA launched four satellites on a mission to study a weird phenomenon in Earth's magnetic field called magnetic reconnection. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has been monitoring the binary star system R Aquarii. Credit: NASA / ESA / Matthias Stute / Margarita Karovska / Davide De Martin / Mahdi Zamani New images from NASA's ...
NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft will uncover how the Sun stripped Mars of its atmosphere. Mars is a very different world ...