This summer, scientists spotted an incredibly rare visitor to Earth’s solar system—a comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, that entered our solar system from the galaxy beyond and is zipping past the sun at a ...
The European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passed close to Mars. (The European Space Agency) A mysterious interstellar comet — just the third such ...
Elon Musk wants to nuke Mars. What are the consequences? Without nukes, life on Mars might be like this: You'd live in giant ...
Bringing samples from Mars back to Earth is one of NASA's most ambitious goals. The plan goes back to the 1970s, with NASA's robotic exploration program, when the first spacecraft landed on the ...
A mysterious interstellar comet — just the third such object ever confirmed to have entered our solar system — streaked past Mars last week. A spacecraft in orbit around the red planet had a front-row ...