Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science – but at a price in risk and trade‑offs

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This artist’s rendering shows the ESCAPADE probes near Mars. (Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights . After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE , missionContinue Reading

Our favorite Space.com stories of 2025

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We’ve rounded up some of our favorite space stories we published in 2025. (Image credit: Space.com/Marilyn Perkins and Josh Dinner; Future/Susan Lapides; NASA/Goddard/SwRI/JHU-APL; Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Quite a bit has happened in the space sector this year, out in the cosmos as well as on Earth — and actually, in Earth orbit, too. ForContinue Reading

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The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II was the most mass-produced supersonic fighter jet ever flown in the history of the United States of America. It was originally procured by the US Navy, but later went on to be the primary fighter platform for the US Air Force and the USContinue Reading