Comet 3I/ATLAS is a visitor that will never call the solar system home. Identified on a one-way path that carries it in and ...

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 ...

Scientists confirm that clocks on Mars run faster than on Earth and will change global space navigation in the future ...

A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another theory that this era was mainly cold and icy. The result has implications for the idea that ...

For more than a century, popular culture has promised that humanity will spread effortlessly across the Solar System, turning Mars into a second Earth and building floating cities above Venus. The ...

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 ...

Initial analysis suggested the nucleus was approximately 13.7 kilometers wide (roughly city-sized); however, researchers ...

A new design for a nuclear-powered rocket could be the key to making the solar system more accessible. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

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 ...