The Solar Orbiter was passing by the Earth for a gravity assist maneuver late last year. Comet Leonard’s tail may have been close to Venus at the time, but it was so long that it stretched all ...

Comet Leonard was particularly odd ... Speaking of its tail, NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter managed to fly right through it — twice. “It was an utterly surreal experience ...

A new record-breaking set of images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter probe during its close pass of the star in March has been released, revealing a plethora of never-before-seen details ...

Comet Leonard passed us within a million miles ... show and was even captured whizzing past the ESA and NASA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft with a bright tail of gas and ice emissions as it neared ...

Tereza Pultarova Sun-observing spacecraft flies through tail of comet Leonard Tuesday ... The spacecraft, called Solar Orbiter, passed through the comet's tail on Dec. 17, 2021, the European ...

NASA hopes to establish that if you hit an asteroid or comet hard enough while it's sufficiently ... system which is fuelled by 28ft-long solar panels. The more material from the asteroid that ...

All but two of our solar system's planets have natural satellites ... most spectacularly demonstrated in the 1994 impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Jupiter's larger moons are directly ...

On its 10th flyby of the sun, the Parker Solar Probe hit record speeds that would see it get from New York to London in just over half a minute. The fact that the solar system could be traveling ...

Known as the Committee on the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey, it designates a Uranus Orbiter and Probe ... most intriguing bodies in the solar system', and says studying it ...