China's Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter has imaged the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS during its close pass by the Red Planet, aiding global efforts to study the rare interstellar interloper. A series of photos ...
The very first image of Earth from space was taken on October 24, 1946, from a German-made rocket launched from New Mexico. The U.S. seized the rocket at the end of World War II and studied its ...
China has matched the European Space Agency’s feat of taking a snapshot of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from a Mars orbiter.… Astronomers spotted 3I/ATLAS in July and the Minor Planet Center noted its ...
The arrival of an interstellar comet is a truly momentous astronomical event, but witnessing one up close, from the orbit of another planet? That is the stuff of science fiction. Yet, this remarkable ...