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June 2025: What's in the sky this month? Titan's shadow transits Saturn, and Mercury meets with Jupiter in the evening
The innermost planets straddle nighttime, with Mercury in the evening and the greatest western elongation of Venus in the ...
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Tianwen-2 is voyaging to an asteroid and a comet
After leaving Earth, Tianwen-2 will reach Kamo‘oalewa by July 2026. This tiny, elongated asteroid likely spans no more than ...
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China’s Tianwen-2 Launches to Retrieve Samples from Mysterious Asteroid Kamo’oalewa
China’s Tianwen-2 launched on a sample return mission to asteroid Kamo’oalewa, before heading out for a visit with the Comet ...
China Daily Global Edition2d
Tianwen 2 mission to retrieve asteroid samples, explore comet
The CNSA said the Tianwen 2 mission is expected to accomplish multiple objectives through a single expedition, including the ...
Sampling a 'quasi-moon': What's next for China's newly launched Tianwen 2 asteroid-sampling mission
China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft launched on Tuesday (May 28), kicking off a bold mission to grab a sample of one of Earth's ...
China's Tianwen-2 is off to collect an asteroid sample
Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...
China extends its reach into the Solar System with launch of asteroid mission
Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...
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This Comet Explosion Was 300 Million Times Stronger Than an Atomic Bomb
What happens when a comet collides with a gas giant? In July 1994, Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter in a spectacular series of 21 explosions, creating fireballs bigger than Earth itself. This was ...