E287 - World Space Week: Cosmic Collisions, Mars' Ancient Ice & NASA's Mystery Mission

As World Space Week continues, Kalam Astro host Alya Al-Nuaimi brings you more cosmic wonders to celebrate humanity's place in the universe!

We open with a spectacular phenomenon captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope: planets smashing into each other in a distant solar system — a cosmic car crash on an unimaginable scale. These planetary collisions shaped our own solar system billions of years ago, and JWST is now letting us watch the same process happening in real time around other stars.

Then we head to Mars — and the possibility of something extraordinary. Could Mars be h...