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 ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...

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 ...

The comet, known as C/2024 G3 or ATLAS ... There will be a lunar occultation of Mars. That means Mars will slip behind the Moon, making it seem like the planet has disappeared, he told USA ...

October 2024 offers fantastic skywatching opportunities, including Comet C/2023 A3 visible from October 14-24, paired with beautiful planetary views of Venus, Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter.

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part of one — that was gravitationally captured by the Red Planet long ago, a new preprint study based on previously unpublished photos ...