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Israeli lunar lander crash landed on the Moon. Chandrayaan-2 India: 8 September 2019: First attempt to land near the Moon's south pole; lost contact at 2.1 km and crashed. Chang'e 5 China: 1 December 2020 10] [11] First lunar sample return mission by China.
The timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history. Each object is listed in chronological order of its discovery (multiple dates occur when the moments of imaging, observation, and publication differ), identified through its various designations (including temporary and permanent schemes), and the ...
Neptune has been directly explored by one space probe, Voyager 2, in 1989. As of 2024, there are no confirmed future missions to visit the Neptunian system, although a tentative Chinese mission has been planned for launch. [1] NASA, ESA, and independent academic groups have proposed future scientific missions to visit Neptune. Some mission ...
A “planet parade” of six planets will soon appear to align in the sky near dawn, but only three will be visible to the naked eye. Here’s how to view the event.
Astronomers have observed a mysterious large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, along with a bright feature that has never been spotted before. Mysterious dark spot detected on Neptune Skip to ...
Scientists have finally discovered how sheets of diamond rain form on the ice giants, Neptune and Uranus. The answer could explain why Neptune’s core is hot.
Minor planets in the L 4 and L 5 Sun–Neptune Lagrangian points are called Neptune trojans, with a lower-case t, as "Trojan asteroid" was originally defined as a term for Lagrangian asteroids of Jupiter. Data from: Minor Planet Center
The bright S/2002 N5 moon is 14 miles (23 kilometers) in diameter and takes nearly nine years to complete an orbit of Neptune, while faint S/2021 N1 is about 8.7 miles (14 kilometers) across and ...