Solar Orbiter is returning to Earth for a flyby before starting its main science mission to explore the sun and its connection to 'space weather." During the flyby Solar Orbiter must pass through the clouds of space debris ...
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Recent weeks have witnessed a series of medium-to-large-sized asteroids cross paths with Earth's orbit. The largest of the pack—asteroid 2004 UE—is on track to make its closest approach to the planet Nov. 13. University ...
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Nov 11, 2021
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A mega-comet—potentially the largest ever discovered—is heading from the Oort Cloud towards our direction. Estimated to be 100–200 kilometers across, the unusual celestial wanderer will make its closest approach to ...
Astronomy
Oct 15, 2021
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The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back its first images of Mercury, the nearest planet to the Sun, the European Space Agency said Saturday.
Planetary Sciences
Oct 3, 2021
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The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury will make the first of six flybys of its destination planet on 1 October before entering orbit in 2025.
Space Exploration
Sep 28, 2021
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Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo are set to make space history with two Venus flybys just 33 hours apart on 9 and 10 August.
Space Exploration
Aug 2, 2021
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A serendipitous flythrough of the tail of a disintegrated comet has offered scientists a unique opportunity to study these remarkable structures, in new research presented today at the National Astronomy Meeting 2021.
Astronomy
Jul 19, 2021
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Comet 46P/Wirtanen was releasing an unusual amount of alcohol as it made its historic flyby of Earth two and a half years ago. That's one of the findings from the latest published study comet detectives conducted after observing ...
Planetary Sciences
Jun 30, 2021
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Astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein discovered a space object recently that has an orbit around the sun and also stretches into the Oort cloud—they have named it 2014 UN271. The researchers made the discovery ...
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists were recently left scratching their heads over a familiar sight in the sky. Venus images are nothing new, but a solar probe surprised the researchers by seeing through the planet's ...
Space Exploration
Apr 15, 2021
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