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NASA shut off a Voyager instrument. Only these 4 remain.

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NASA shut off a Voyager instrument. Only these 4 remain.

Mashable October 16, 2024

Nuclear fuel lasts a long time. But not forever.Both Voyager craft, launched in 1977, convert heat produced...

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NASA spacecraft has roamed billions of miles — but hasn’t reached the ‘edge’

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NASA spacecraft has roamed billions of miles — but hasn’t reached the ‘edge’

Mashable October 13, 2024

Zooming through the outer reaches of the solar system, A NASA spacecraft just clocked a distance 60...

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As spacecraft zooms to Venus, it peers back at humble Earth and the moon

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As spacecraft zooms to Venus, it peers back at humble Earth and the moon

Mashable October 12, 2024

We’re small. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth’s...

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Webb telescope is about to home in on these 2 exoplanets. Here’s why.

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Webb telescope is about to home in on these 2 exoplanets. Here’s why.

Mashable October 12, 2024

The James Webb Space Telescope will soon begin a massive study of rocky worlds outside the solar...

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Webb telescope zooms in on solar system object shooting jets into space

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Webb telescope zooms in on solar system object shooting jets into space

Mashable October 12, 2024

There’s a class of objects journeying around our solar system dubbed “centaurs.” They don’t come near Earth,...

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NASA’s flying to an ocean world. Its spacecraft is giant.

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NASA’s flying to an ocean world. Its spacecraft is giant.

Mashable October 11, 2024

A NASA probe, the length of a basketball court, is headed to the tantalizing world Europa. Planetary...

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NASA’s Mars rovers had a gangbusters summer of rocks

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NASA’s Mars rovers had a gangbusters summer of rocks

Mashable October 11, 2024

This summer NASA‘s two car-sized labs exploring Mars each discovered rocks that neither mission had seen before,...

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NASA astronaut snaps footage of glorious comet flying through space

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NASA astronaut snaps footage of glorious comet flying through space

Mashable October 11, 2024

An icy visitor is flying through the inner solar system.Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, also called Comet C/2023 A3, has...

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NASA ventured into the Valley of 10,000 Smokes, a forbidding land

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NASA ventured into the Valley of 10,000 Smokes, a forbidding land

Mashable October 10, 2024

Imposing bears teem in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. But few dare enter its Valley of...

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Scientists find powerful window into the extreme reaches of space

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Scientists find powerful window into the extreme reaches of space

Mashable October 8, 2024

There are funhouse mirrors in space. Objects in the universe can be so massive — often clusters...

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