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10 billion km in 3 minutes! Epic video captures a spacecraft's 8-year odyssey to planet Mercury
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (338+ words) The European Space Agency released a video showing BepiColombo's view as it travelled across the Solar System After nearly eight years navigating the inner Solar System, the BepiColombo mission has released incredible footage showing the spacecraft's voyage through the inner…...
This is the first ever close-up image of Earth???s???mini moon???. We could soon have samples back on Earth
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (281+ words) Chinese probe takes a picture of the ‘quasi-satellite’ Kamoʻoalewa near Earth China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has returned the first-ever close-range images of our planet’s ‘mini moon’ Kamoʻoalewa, after closing to within 20km (12 miles) of the space rock. Tianwen-2 was launched on 28 May…...
The case for life on Mars just got stronger. A NASA rover has found extensive organic carbon in ancient river rocks
1+ week, 13+ hour ago (426+ words) NASA's Perseverance rover’s discovery of widespread complex carbon on Mars adds fresh clues to the hunt for past life Scientists have confirmed one of the most extensive detections yet of complex organic carbon on Mars, found in mudstones in an…...
Twelve of the weirdest things we've ever seen on Mars. The eerie open door will give you chills!
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1256+ words) The strangest sights captured on the Red Planet over the years and what they really are At the turn of the 19th century, American businessman turned amateur astronomer Percival Lowell created a controversy that was to rage for nearly half a…...
Our Solar System is trying to kill us. Four catastrophic ways Earth could eventually be obliterated
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1280+ words) Our Solar System is constantly changing and evolving. Jane Green looks at the big upheavals and threats that lie in store for our planetary neighbourhood in the aeons ahead As the late ex-Beatle George Harrison wrote, “All things must pass…...
How many neighbours did planet Earth lose? We may have lost planet 9 and trillions of comets from our Solar System
2+ week, 11+ hour ago (238+ words) Some of Earth’s original neighbours were flung out into deep space The Solar System didn't always exist as we know it today. It's about 4.5 billion years old and took quite a long time to settle down into the relatively stable…...
Earth is in the minority. There may be more 'starship' planets wandering space than planets orbiting suns??? and they could have life
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1382+ words) There are a staggering number of planets wandering the Galaxy, not tied to any star Round and round Earth goes, year after year, bound by gravity to our Sun. Yet imagine I were to tell you that Earth is in…...
This rare meteorite is proof of a lost ancient planet that once roamed our Solar System
3+ week, 1+ day ago (244+ words) Ultra-rare meteorite is a fragment from a protoplanet possibly as big as Mars A rare meteorite discovered in the Sahara Desert has provided the first definitive evidence for a giant protoplanet that formed early in the Solar System’s history before…...