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Lost photos suggest Mars' mysterious moon Phobos may be a trapped comet in disguise
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part of one — that was gravitationally captured by the Red Planet long ago, a new preprint study based on previously unpublished photos ...
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Wispy comet photobombs 'rare' planetary parade above Chile's Atacama Desert (photos)
The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...
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Space photo of the week: The last view of the 'Great Comet of 2025' for half a million years
Beautifully captured against a starry sky, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) — dubbed by some as the "Great Comet of 2025" — shines ...
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Comet Siding Spring: A close encounter with Mars
A speeding comet the size of a mountain will come within 140,000km of Mars on Sunday Oct 19, and NASA is planning to observe it with just about everything the agency’s got.
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NASA finds 4-billion-year-old treasure on Mars that emerged after a mysterious ancient impact
The Noachian era’s importance in the formation of Mars is characterized by a series of asteroid and comet bombardments that shaped the planet’s surface. Rocks from this era are some of the ...
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NASA's Europa Clipper will fly close to Mars today on way to Jupiter's icy moon
"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to build up the energy we need to get to Jupiter and Europa." Today (March ...