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 ...

Comet Leonard entered Earth's skies nearly a year ... have been tracking this unique visitor from deep space. Europe's Solar Orbiter caught a glimpse of the fiery tail of the comet as it monitored ...

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 ...

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 ...

TOM LEONARD: This suicide mission crashing a craft ... Propulsion Laboratory in California used data from the Mars Odyssey orbiter, with visible light and heat sensitive cameras to look at the ...