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Dawn Nears Start of Year-Long Stay at Giant Asteroid
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to begin the first extended visit to a large asteroid. The mission expects to go into orbit around Vesta on July 16 and begin...
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Nasa Spacecraft Confirms Theories, Sees Surprises at Mercury
NASA scientists are making new discoveries about the planet Mercury. Data from MESSENGER, the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, is giving scientists important...
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Nasa Probes Suggest Magnetic Bubbles Reside At Solar System Edge
Observations from NASA's Voyager spacecraft, humanity's farthest deep space sentinels, suggest the edge of our solar system may not be smooth, but filled with...
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NASA Concludes Attempts To Contact Mars Rover Spirit
NASA is ending attempts to regain contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated on March 22, 2010.
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Free-Floating Planets May Be More Common Than Stars
Astronomers, including a NASA-funded team member, have discovered a new class of Jupiter-sized planets floating alone in the dark of space, away from the light...
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NASA's Dawn Captures First Image of Nearing Asteroid
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has obtained its first image of the giant asteroid Vesta, which will help fine-tune navigation during its approach. Dawn is expected to...
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Voyager Set to Enter Interstellar Space
More than 30 years after they left Earth, NASA's twin Voyager probes are now at the edge of the solar system.
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Nasa's Hubble Celebrates 21st Anniversary with 'rose' of Galaxies
To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md...
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Nasa's Messenger Spacecraft Begins Historic Orbit Around Mercury
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft successfully achieved orbit around Mercury at approximately 9 p.m. EDT Thursday. This marks the first time a spacecraft has accomplished...
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Heading Into the Bonus Round
A bonus round is something one usually associates with the likes of a TV game show, not a pioneering deep space mission. "We are definitely in the bonus round...
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NASA Probe Sees Solar Wind Decline
The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind.
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Nasa Mission Successfully Flies By Comet Hartley 2
NASA's EPOXI mission successfully flew by comet Hartley 2 at about 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT) today, and the spacecraft has begun returning images. Hartley 2 is...
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Star Wars Meets Ups as Robonaut Packed For Space
Getting into space isn't necessarily easy for astronauts, and it's not much easier for a robotic astronaut, either.
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Planck Takes It All In
A new image from the Planck mission shows what it's been up to for the past year--surveying the entire sky for clues to our universal origins.
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