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NASA's Lucy spacecraft to zoom past asteroid this weekend at 30,000 mph: "We don't know what to expect"
NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.
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Fusion Rockets Could Theoretically Cut Our Travel Time to Mars in Half. This U.K. Startup Wants to Give It a Try
The company’s ambitious new Sunbird design aims to harness nuclear fusion in space, despite the fact that commercializing ...
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The Coolest Images Taken by NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft
Flyby New Horizons Pluto Solar System Spacecraft Get the best tech, science, and culture news in your inbox daily. News from the future, delivered to your present. Please select your desired ...
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Spacecraft Will Reach Pluto in July, Revealing Last Face in Solar System
We know about Pluto. But we don’t really know it. That will change on July 14, when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to fly within 8,000 miles of the frozen dwarf. It’s a risky ...
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New Horizons: Unveiling Life Beyond Earth
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope may have found signs of life on an alien planet, K2-18 b, identified by Earth ...
Remember when Pluto was a planet? Here’s 10 photos NASA took of the dwarf planet
Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...
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NASA New Horizons spacecraft shows detailed Pluto flyover
An curved arrow pointing right. The New Horizons spacecraft traveled more than 3 billion miles to reach Pluto. Scientists at NASA have used the mission data to create flyovers that are even closer ...