The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured comet Comet 96P/Machholz latest flyby of the Sun. See a time-lapse of the footage here. Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO | edited by Space.com's St

NASA's MAVEN orbiter lost contact after observing an interstellar visitor dubbed 3I/ATLAS during its close approach to Mars, prompting an unprecedented global planetary defense exercise. These developments mark a significant moment in space exploration and international cooperation.

At the heart of this mission is NASA's next-generation Space Launch System (SLS), a towering 100-meter rocket designed to propel astronauts beyond Earth's orbit. The SLS, paired with the Orion crew capsule,

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NASA released close-up images on Wednesday of the rare interstellar comet that's making a single pass through the solar system. One of the images shows the comet, also known as 3I/ATLAS, as it moves through space about 190 million miles from Earth.

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Time now for an interstellar flyby. Let's meet a very old comet, 3I/ATLAS. DARRYL SELIGMAN: 3I/ATLAS is probably somewhere between 3 billion to 11 billion years old. So it's presumably been traveling around the galaxy for billions of years, potentially ...