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The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted ...
The country's space agency said it will return “groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of the cosmos." ...
China’s Tianwen-2 launched on a sample return mission to asteroid Kamo’oalewa, before heading out for a visit with the Comet ...
The CNSA said the Tianwen 2 mission is expected to accomplish multiple objectives through a single expedition, including the ...
NASA scientists have discovered evidence that could help answer questions surrounding the history of water loss on Mars.
Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...
NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has collected its 24th sample of Jezero Crater. The 'Comet Geyser' sample is "great for ...
it will also pass in front of the more-brilliantly-red-than-usual Mars in an event known as a lunar occultation. But that’s not all January’s sky has to offer. A new comet, expected to be the ...
as these comets cross the orbit of Mars, their steady brightening trend starts to falter, similar to a marathon runner at the 20-mile mark; "hitting the wall" so to speak. In the case of a comet ...
Mars' moon Phobos may actually be a comet — or at least part of one — that was gravitationally captured by the Red Planet long ago, a new preprint study based on previously unpublished photos ...
A green comet shooting past Earth for the first time since the Ice Age is about to skim right past Mars in the night sky. The green comet and the red planet will be visible side-by-side across the ...