Researchers have built a new platform that produces ultrashort UV-C laser pulses and detects them at room temperature using ...

NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The space agency last heard from the Maven (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft as it orbited ...

The mystifying 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet is blazing toward Earth and will in a matter of days come as close to our planet as it ever will. The impending cosmic rendezvous – if you want to call it ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The orbiter, one of three zooming around Mars' atmosphere, had been working as expected before it ...

MAVEN Mars Orbiter: This artist’s concept illustrates NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft in proximity to Mars. NASA 'MAVEN Artist’s Concept' via https://science.nasa.gov/ ...

Eleven years in Mars orbit, terabytes of vital information on the Martian atmosphere, and over half a billion dollars in government funding. This is what was brought into peril on December 6th, 2025, ...

Today is the day that astronomers, amateur stargazers and alien conspiracy theorists alike have been waiting for: interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is as close to Earth as it will ever get. But lest you ...

On October 2nd, 2025, 3I/ATLAS swept within 30 million kilometres of Mars, bringing the comet within range of several spacecraft. NASA’s MRO pivoted from its usual task of imaging Martian terrain to ...

3I/Atlas was first detected on July 1 by the ATLAS telescope in Chile; its hyperbolic trajectory immediately marked it as a visitor from beyond the Sun’s gravitational family. Further tracking ...