At an estimated velocity of 250,000 kilometers per hour, interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS lacked the luxury of long, recurring ...
The engineering lesson is simple: Sometimes the best observatory is the one already parked at another planet. When an ...
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 ...
MAVEN was built to last in orbit until 2030 — that's not looking likely anymore.
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 ...
Olympus Mons on Mars is the tallest mountain in the solar system, towering nearly three times higher than Mount Everest.
NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...
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 ...