NASA and China are locked in an unprecedented competition to achieve humanity's first rocket launch from another planet's ...

The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. The discovery represents ...

For decades, people have asked if life ever existed on Mars. The question moved from science fiction to careful science with ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, astronomers detected a strange, fast-moving object racing toward the Sun. Named ...

The interstellar visitor will pass just 30 million kilometers from Mars on Oct. 3 — far closer than it comes to Earth.

There's something big missing from our solar system — and that may be a good thing. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Planetary ...

Ever since a mysterious interstellar object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, was first spotted screaming into our solar system, famed ...

NASA has responded to speculation that mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is actually an alien starship preparing to invade Earth.

While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a ...

On Mars, things are a lot more static. It’s a single-plate planet with incredibly slow mixing. When InSight peered into the ...

The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought experiment to it, highlighting everything about it that might align with a hypothetical alien spacecraft.

Experts speculate a new Phobos mission could launch by 2030, leveraging advancements in propulsion and AI for safer trajectories.