It only takes a few minutes to get to space! Rockets hit the boundary of space, approximately 100 km above Earth, in around 8-10 minutes. It takes at most a couple of hours to get to the ISS in orbit.
What makes 3I/ATLAS especially intriguing is that the comet might be three billion years older than our entire Solar System.
Mars is currently visible in the western sky after sunset, at its faintest apparent magnitude (1.6) for the year, due to its approaching solar conjunction. On this particular night, Mars is situated ...
On March 1, NASA's Europa Clipper will streak just 550 miles (884 kilometers) above the surface of Mars for what's known as a gravity assist—a maneuver to bend the spacecraft's trajectory and position ...
As predicted, interstellar object 3I/ATLAS came within spitting distance of the surface of Mars as it continued blazing its ...