Why it's so special: Nicknamed the "Great Comet of 2025," Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is currently the brightest comet predicted to be visible from Earth all year. Discovered on April 5, 2024 by the ...

NASA and General Atomics test nuclear fuel for future moon and Mars missions The total value of the awards is $2.625 million, meaning up to $175,000 for each chosen concept. While not all of these ...

NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ... curid=22929212 The gas, carrying dark Martian dust, erupts through the ice in geyser-like fountains. As the material falls back to the surface, it ...

(The problem resurfaced in the late 18th century in the different, commercialized form of the British East Indian Company, which used its geyser of cash to quite effectively corrupt the House of ...

In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft first discovered towering plumes of water vapor erupting from the moon's frozen surface, for instance, and it was later theorized that these geysers come from a ...

There are a couple potential explanations for distinctive markings found on a Martian rock, but new evidence suggests they ...

Robert Zubrin, likely the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, and then remaking it in the Earth’s image, predicts SpaceX’s colossal Starship will be the first spacecraft ...

This small, icy moon is characterized by its highly reflective white surface and geyser-like jets releasing ice and water vapor hundreds of kilometers into space from its south pole. NASA's ...

New research suggests Enceladus’ water plumes may originate from a slushy ice layer rather than its underground ocean.