Blue Origin has successfully launched Nasa's highly anticipated Escapade mission to Mars, marking a historic night for the company and the future of multi-planetary exploration. After multiple delays due to weather issues and a raging solar storm,

“It’s a huge privilege to be leading a mission to Mars,” said Robert Lillis, the UC Berkeley planetary scientist leading the international team of researchers, over email. “ (ESCAPADE) will give us a whole new set of ‘eyes’ in understanding how space weather buffets Mars’ atmosphere … It’s hugely significant.”

A geomagnetic storm on Earth triggered by a large burst of solar radiation has temporarily grounded a Blue Origin rocket carrying twin NASA satellites built to measure space

Science Theories That Are So Strange They Must Be True: 25 Biggest Discoveries in Space Exploration: Do you believe theres life out there? Im not talking about little green men, just life? Well, NASA once ran an experiment on Mars that found the evidence for it and then pretty much buried the results.

NASA selects 10 new astronauts from among 8,000 applicants and begins training that will take them into orbit, to the Moon, and to Mars.