E285 - World Space Week: Ancient Water on Mars, JWST Finds Water by a Black Hole & a Planet Going Backwards

Happy World Space Week! Kalam Astro host Alya Al-Nuaimi marks this global celebration of space science (October 4–10) with three jaw-dropping discoveries that remind us why we keep looking up!

First up — Mars. NASA's Curiosity rover has done it again. Deep inside a Martian crater, it found compelling evidence of ancient hot water. Not just frozen ice — but signs of a warm, liquid water environment that once existed on the surface of the Red Planet. This is huge news for the question that keeps scientists up at night: was there ever life on Mars?

Then we travel...