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The stunning photos of the interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, were taken by the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters last week.

Two Spacecraft Orbiting Mars Just Spotted the Mysterious Interstellar Visitor

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has seemingly managed to snap images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it made its flyby of the Red Planet.

NASA Rover Appears to Catch Photo of Mysterious Interstellar Object From Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have found that Saturn's moon, Enceladus, is spewing out copious amounts of complex organic molecules, signs of habitability.

Saturn’s Moon Shows Major Signs of Life

By Victor Tangermann

Galaxies "blazing with technosignatures" could suggest the existence of a "large number" of "different metasocieties."

Scientist Says Galaxies Shining With Radio Signals Could Indicate Numerous Advanced Civilizations

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have discovered that a "rogue" planet is going through a massive growth spurt and it's eating everything around it.

Scientists Spot “Rogue” Planet Floating Between Stars, Devouring Everything in Reach

By Sharon Adarlo

Astronomers detected a gigantic wave pattern in a large portion of the Milky Way galaxy by analyzing data from young stars.

The Milky Way has a Colossal Wave Rippling Through It, Astronomers Say

By Sharon Adarlo

Canadian Moon astronaut Jeremy Hansen told Ars Technica that he's hoping to "take a very short nap on the pad."

Astronaut Traveling to Moon Next Year Says He’s Hoping to Take a “Short Nap” on the Launch Pad

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers said they had found "undepleted phosphine," a molecule associated with life, on Earth in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf.

Astronomers Startled to Spot Abundance of “Biosignature” Molecules in a Failed Star’s Atmosphere

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers found that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS shows an "extreme abundance ratio" of nickel and iron in its gas plume.

The Mysterious Object Cruising Through Solar System Is Releasing Strange Metals, Paper Finds

By Victor Tangermann

Strange, quasi-circular circles structures called coronae scour the surface of Venus — but their origins are a mystery.

Scientists Intrigued by Weird Structures on Surface of Venus

By Frank Landymore

Harvard astornomer Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could've sent off the Wow! Signal back in 1977.

Mysterious Object Cruising Through Solar System May Have Emitted a Signal, Scientist Says

By Victor Tangermann

Earlier this week, the Sun unleashed a flurry of plasma and magnetic fields, or coronal mass ejection, at interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

Sun Fires Energy Blast Straight at Mysterious Interstellar Object Cruising Through Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be far more massive than previously thought.

Mysterious Object Screaming Toward Mars Is Huge and Far More Massive Than Scientists Thought, According to New Paper

By Victor Tangermann

A Russian satellite came back to Earth while carrying organisms, as part of a mission to test the theory that life was seeded from space.

Russia Tests Whether Life Could Spread Between Planets With Spacecraft Filled With Critters

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA revealed that its Artemis 2 mission to the Moon could launch as soon as February 5, roughly two months earlier than anticipated.

NASA Says It’s Hitting the Gas, Speedrunning Next Moon Mission

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have presented the "first compelling evidence for the existence of lava tubes on Venus." And they're way bigger than we thought.

Scientists Confirm Massive Underground Tunnels on Venus

By Victor Tangermann

In a new paper, scientists argued that our best option is to blow up asteroid 2024 YR4 as part of a "kinetic disruption mission."

Scientists Say We Should Blow Up This Dangerous Asteroid Before It Gets Here

By Victor Tangermann

A multibillion-dollar contract between NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX is under scrutiny as experts warn China could beat the US to the Moon.

SpaceX Now Causing NASA to Lose Space Race to China, Experts Say

By Victor Tangermann

The mysterious object appears to be a rarely seen "quasi-moon" that closely follows the orbit of our planet.

Scientists Intrigued by Mysterious Object Floating Near Earth

By Frank Landymore

Tim Burchett stayed remarkably cool as he painted a horrifying picture of an HP Lovecraft story come to life.

Congressman Calmly Explains There Are “Entities” Coming From “Five or Six Deepwater Areas”

Objects like 3I/ATLAS could become the "seeds" of giant planets after being captured in the discs of dust and gas surrounding a young star.

Mysterious Object From Beyond Solar System May Be “Seed” Traveling Galaxy and Creating New Planets, Paper Finds

By Victor Tangermann

Flowing water suggests that water ice may have survived in the asteroid for longer than what was thought possible.

Scientists Find Evidence of Flowing Water on Giant Asteroid

By Frank Landymore

Donald Trump is our planet's number one obstacle to following up on NASA's blockbuster findings about life on Mars.

Now That NASA Found Signs of Life on Mars, It’s Clear Trump Made a Massive Error

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Scientist Disputes Claim That Mysterious Object Headed Into Solar System Was Sent by Aliens

NASA Scientist Disputes Claim That Mysterious Object Headed Into Solar System Was Sent by Aliens

By Victor Tangermann

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is sprouting a separate, "anti-tail," as Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests.

The Mysterious Object Cruising Toward Mars Is Doing Something Very Peculiar

By Victor Tangermann

Instead of lauding its scientists, NASA's acting leader praised Trump during an announcement about the potential discovery of life on Mars.

NASA Announces Possible Discovery of Life on Mars by Comically Sucking Up to Trump

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has announced that its Perseverance Mars rover spotted "potential biosignatures" in an ancient dry riverbed last year.

NASA Says Its Mars Rover Has Detected Possible Signs of Life on the Red Planet

By Victor Tangermann

As interstellar object 3I/ATLAS approaches its closest point to the Sun next month, the mysterious visitor continues to fascinate.

Mysterious Object Headed Into Our Star System Is Now Changing Color

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb argued interstellar object 3I/ATLAS "could either visit us or release some mini-probes that arrive to Earth."

Scientist Watching to See If Mysterious Object Visiting Our Solar System Releases Any Probes

By Victor Tangermann

New observations by the Gemini South telescope at Cerro Pachón in Chile revealed that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS' tail is growing longer.

Mysterious Object Headed Into Our Solar System Is Changing Shape, New Image Shows

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's interim head Sean Duffy told employees during a town hall last week that "sometimes we can let safety be the enemy of making progress."

NASA Head Says It’s Time to Cut Back on Astronaut Safety to Beat China to the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

According to one new paper, it's possible that our planet was instead seeded by "advanced extraterrestrials."

Paper Finds Earth May Have Been Terraformed by “Advanced Extraterrestrials”

By Victor Tangermann

Experts warned that the United States is at risk of having China beat it to the Moon as its Artemis program continues to lag behind.

Lawmakers Panic As They Realize China May Beat the US to the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Seismic data collected by the NASA Insight lander point to huge foreign objects lodged in the mantle of Mars from billions of years ago.

NASA Finds Evidence That Mars Devoured Huge Chunks of Other Planets

By Frank Landymore

To Avi Loeb, 3I/ATLAS' flyby of Mars is an exceedingly rare and exciting opportunity to directly observe it using NASA's MRO spacecraft.

Mysterious Object Headed Toward Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Why the New York Times Claimed Life Had Been Found on Mars

Why the New York Times Claimed Life Had Been Found on Mars

By Jon Christian

Alien hunting Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb continues to rail against the idea that our newest interstellar is merely a comet.

Scientist Says Mysterious Object Approaching Earth May Be Alien Artifact

By Frank Landymore

It's looking more and more like NASA's helpless flailing could position China to beat the United States in the race to return to the Moon.

China’s Getting Ready to Land Astronauts on the Moon While NASA Flails Helplessly

By Victor Tangermann

That strange interstellar object flying by us may, according to one outlandish astronomer, have been sent by aliens to see how smart we are.

Astronomer Suggests New Interstellar Object Could be Advanced Aliens Testing Our Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

AeroVironment and NASA's JPL have shown off a wild concept for deploying six helicopters above the surface of Mars.

Bonkers NASA Mission Aims to Drop Six Helicopters Onto Mars From Space

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese researchers say they've devised a new way to extract water from lunar soil and convert it into fuel.

Chinese Scientists Invent System for Extracting Oxygen, Water and Rocket Fuel From Moon Dust

By Victor Tangermann

What is by far the largest meteorite from Mars ever found on Earth has been bought by an anonymous collector.

Scientists Saddened as World’s Largest Mars Rock Is Sold at Auction

By Frank Landymore

New research shows that lunar dust is less toxic than many Earthborne air pollutants. That said — should you snort it? Well, you could!

Scientists Investigate What Happens If You Snort Moon Dust

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists using the James Webb took its first ever direct picture of an exoplanet that resulted in its discovery.

James Webb Discovers First-Ever Exoplanet by Taking a Picture of It

By Sharon Adarlo

Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship suffered another explosion on Wednesday, which has cast doubt on whether these ships can ever reach Mars.

Latest Starship Explosion Drastically Decreases SpaceX’s Chances of Reaching Mars Without Having to Wait Years

By Sharon Adarlo

Over half a century ago, Apollo astronauts encountered something surprising littering the desolate lunar surface: tiny orange beads.

Scientists Investigating Small Orange Objects Coating Surface of the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Terraforming Mars could be as easy as one, two, three, we proclaim, reclined in our cushy very-much-on-Earth armchairs.

Scientists Reveal Easy Three-Step Plan to Terraform Mars

By Frank Landymore

Scientists Say There’s Over a Trillion Dollars of Platinum Waiting to Be Extracted From the Moon’s Craters

Scientists Say There’s Over a Trillion Dollars of Platinum Waiting to Be Extracted From the Moon’s Craters

By Victor Tangermann

The founder of the Mars Society has accused SpaceX CEO Elon Musk of derailing existing plans to explore and visit the Red Planet.

Elon Musk’s “Hubris and Arrogance” Are Ruining Our Chances of Actually Getting to Mars, Says Leading Expert

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that the thick and hazy atmosphere enveloping Saturn's largest moon, Titan, behaves in a very peculiar way.

Scientists Puzzled by Mysterious Motion in Atmosphere of Saturn’s Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Planetary scientists concluded that dark streaks spotted on the surface of Mars didn't have anything to do with flowing water.

Scientists Thought They Had Spotted Flowing Water on Mars. It Turned Out to Be Something Else Entirely.

By Victor Tangermann

When looking for alien life, scientists found something odd — two bizarre pulses coming from a distant constellation.

Alien Hunters Detect “Unexplained Pulses” Emanating From Two Distant Stars

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers, for the first time ever, have witnessed visible auroras over Mars — and it dwarfs anything we see on Earth.

Astronomers Stunned as Epic Mars Aurora Covers Entire Planet

By Frank Landymore

NASA has revealed that it's considering reprioritizing its goals to accelerate Elon Musk’s push to send humans to Mars.

NASA Eyes 2026 Mars Launch as Musk Pushes to Skip the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The Trump has called on NASA to cancel its "grossly expensive and delayed" Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule after Artemis 3.

White House Announces Plans to Rip Up NASA’s Moon Program

By Victor Tangermann

If he had to choose between the Moon or Mars, incoming NASA administrator Jared Isaacman picked the Moon, against Elon Musk's wishes.

Incoming NASA Administrator Throws Elon Musk’s Mars Plans Under the Bus

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have found the most compelling evidence to date of alien life — and apparently, the discovery was positively shocking.

Scientist Says Sign of “Teeming” Alien Life Caused Him “Shock”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Using the Webb telescope, scientists have discovered the strongest signs of alien life to date — but NASA has nothing to say about it.

NASA Has No Comment on New Signs of Alien Life

By Noor Al-Sibai

Incoming NASA head and SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman wants to return astronauts to the Moon, defying Elon Musk's desire to skip it.

Incoming Head of NASA Defies Elon Musk on Order to Abandon Moon Program

By Victor Tangermann

A British startup called Pulsar Fusion has come up with a wild new concept for a nuclear fusion-powered space rocket.

Startup Says Its Nuclear Fusion Rocket Could Cut Time to Mars in Half

By Victor Tangermann

The permanently shadowed regions of the Earth's Moon could shelter microbial lifeforms, according to new research.

Scientists Say There May Be Life on the Moon

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a bizarrely textured rock covered in hundreds of egg-like spheres on Mars, astonishing scientists.

Scientists Puzzled When Mars Rover Finds Egg-Like Rock

By Frank Landymore

Scientists found that substances found in Martian dust could be life-threatening to human space travelers, greatly imperiling their health.

Elon Musk’s Mars Colonization Plans Foiled by Pesky Foe

By Victor Tangermann

Amid Donald Trump and Elon Musk's push to eradicate the woke mind virus, NASA has removed language about its non-white men astronauts.

NASA Drops Promise to Land “First Woman, Person of Color” on the Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai