[ad_1] NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has survived its first trial by fire. The spacecraft zoomed within 15 million miles (24 million kilometers) of the sun on Monday (Nov. 5) — far closer than any mission had …
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[ad_1] Thirteen years outbound Earth and a trillion miles past Pluto, NASA's New Horizons Probe is healthy and on the road to a new year. project scientists say. Unofficially dubbed Ultima Thule …
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[ad_1] Blue asteroids are rare, and blue comets are almost unheard of. An international team led by Teddy Kareta, a graduate student at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, investigated …
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[ad_1] On October 3, NASA's New Horizons Space Shuttle briefly ignited the engine to determine the location and time of the New Year's flyby of the subject of the Kuiper Belt, nicknamed …
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[ad_1] On the left, a composite optical navigation image, obtained by combining 20 images of the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) acquired on September 24th. The central photo is a …
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[ad_1] NASA's historic mission to solve the mysteries of the Sun has successfully completed its flight over Venus, the US Space Agency announced. "On October 3, Parker Solar Probe completed its flight …
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[ad_1] Laurel Kornfeld September 30, 2018 The New Horizons spacecraft is moving towards its second target: the Ultima Thule object of the Kuiper Belt. NASA / JPL / JHUAPL image credit NASA …
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[ad_1] The skull-shaped asteroid that made the headlines in 2015 came back, as expected, for another overflight. In December 2017, scientists informed the public that the 2015 TB145 asteroid would make another …
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[ad_1] Visual artist Sean Doran has created a video of what a flyover on the surface of Mars would look like. Doran used the data captured by the HiRISE camera on Mars …
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