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part of one — that was gravitationally captured by the Red Planet long ago, a new preprint study based on previously unpublished photos ...

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has collected its 24th sample of Jezero Crater. The 'Comet Geyser' sample is "great for ...

Beautifully captured against a starry sky, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) — dubbed by some as the "Great Comet of 2025" — shines ...

Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a parade of planets in the post-sunset sky.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers) ...

Venus will be accompanied by Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, which will have magnitudes of ... It can be seen all night. Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann will appear between Jupiter and Neptune in February.

China's major short-video platform Douyin removed a total of 585 micro-dramas in January due to their violations of ...

BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- China is set to launch the Tianwen-2 mission this year, aiming to unravel the mysteries of a "living fossil" of the solar system and one "rebel" of the main asteroid belt.

BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- China's Tianwen-2 probe for asteroid exploration has arrived at the launch site of the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, the China ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, is scheduled to be launched in the coming months from the Xichang ...