A recently resurfaced image taken byNASA’s Mars Global Surveyor is reigniting public fascination with the Red Planet. The photo, which shows what appears to be a square-like formation on the Martian surface,

New research challenges the traditional understanding of Mars’s interior, suggesting a chunky texture, unlike the usual smooth depictions.

However, seismic anomalies detected on Mars by the InSight mission reveal that the mantle is far from smooth and contains rough lumps of ancient fragments up to 4km wide, preserving the planet’s violent early history like geological fossils.

NASA's Voyager 1 launched 48 years ago in September 1977 on a decades-spanning journey to study the cosmos and search for extraterrestrial life.

This week, anticipation builds as astronomers await what the closest approach of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS might reveal.