NASA continues to track the James Webb Space Telescope as it orbits around the Sun-Earth L2 point, a quiet region nearly a million miles from Earth. This stable position allows Webb to stare into deep ...

Perhaps an odd question, but what exactly is the volume of space that makes up various "L" points? Obviously it isn't a precise place in space where only one orbital object sits as if on a gravity ...

NASA’s presumptive next leader wants to outsource more of the space agency’s interplanetary science. The newly launched ESCAPADE mission to Mars offers a sanity check for those plans ...

The first week of December features 10 orbital launches from six different providers across four continents. SpaceX will ...

A NASA mission is set to launch twin spacecraft on a journey to Mars. The robotic orbiters could lift off atop Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket as soon as Sunday.

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 Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, mission will ...

A NASA mission to study the effect of solar weather on Mars has launched from Cape Canaveral on a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket. The ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) ...

Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Amazon multibillionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its towering New Glenn rocket on a mission that marked its first major test. Carrying a pair of satellites that ...