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Solar spacecraft 'SOHO' discovers its 5,000th comet
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory just hit a milestone with its 5,000th comet detection.
Europe's upcoming Mars rover now has a detailed map to aid its search for ancient Red Planet life (video)
The European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin Mars rover now has a detailed map with which to help find its way around the Red Planet when it lands sometime in the next decade.
Life as we know it could exist on Venus, new experiment reveals
Some of the building blocks of life are surprisingly stable in Venus-like conditions, according to a new lab experiment.
Giant Mars asteroid impact creates vast field of destruction with 2 billion craters
An asteroid that slammed into Mars around 2.3 million years ago left one nine-mile wide crater and created 2 billion smaller craters.
365 days of satellite images show Earth's seasons changing from space (video)
Satellite images taken daily for one year shows a stunning glimpse of what the change of seasons looked like from space.
Still alive! Japan's SLIM moon lander survives its 2nd lunar night (photo)
The SLIM spacecraft, Japan's first successful moon lander, has survived its second long, cold lunar night.
Climate change and polar ice melting could be impacting the length of Earth's day
Humanity's activities and climate change are impacting the polar ice sheets, causing excessive melting, and this is slowing Earth's rotation, challenging official timekeeping standards.
Explosive, green 'devil comet' has hidden spiral swirling around its icy heart, photo trickery reveals
New, specially edited photos show a previously unseen swirl of light surrounding the city-size comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which is currently racing toward the sun and will later zoom past Earth.
