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New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting
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New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting

Could the next flyby target for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft actually be two targets?

Five Years Ago and 154 Million Miles Away: Touchdown!
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Five Years Ago and 154 Million Miles Away: Touchdown!

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which landed near Mount Sharp five years ago this week, is examining clues on that mountain about long-ago lakes on Mars.

Two Voyagers Taught ­S How to Listen to Space
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Two Voyagers Taught ­S How to Listen to Space

As NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft were changing our understanding of the solar system, they also spurred a leap in spacecraft communications.

Nasa's Voyager Spacecraft Still Reaching For the Stars After 40 Years
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Nasa's Voyager Spacecraft Still Reaching For the Stars After 40 Years

Humanity's farthest and longest-lived spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, achieve 40 years of operation and exploration this August and September. Despite their vast distance...

Large, Distant Comets More Common Than Previously Thought
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Large, Distant Comets More Common Than Previously Thought

Comets that take more than 200 years to make one revolution around the Sun are notoriously difficult to study.

Saturn Surprises As Cassini Continues its Grand Finale
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Saturn Surprises As Cassini Continues its Grand Finale

As NASA's Cassini spacecraft makes its unprecedented series of weekly dives between Saturn and its rings, scientists are finding—so far—that the planet's magnetic...

From Mars Rover: Panorama Above 'perseverance Valley'
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From Mars Rover: Panorama Above 'perseverance Valley'

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded a panoramic view before entering the upper end of a fluid-carved valley that descends the inner slope of a large...

Nasa Video Soars Over Pluto's Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains
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Nasa Video Soars Over Pluto's Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains

 In July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sent home the first close-up pictures of Pluto and its moons – amazing imagery that inspired many to wonder what a...

Nasa's Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot
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Nasa's Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot

Images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot reveal a tangle of dark, veinous clouds weaving their way through a massive crimson oval.

Curiosity Mars Rover Begins Study of Ridge Destination
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Curiosity Mars Rover Begins Study of Ridge Destination

The car-size NASA rover on a Martian mountain, Curiosity, has begun its long-anticipated study of an iron-bearing ridge forming a distinctive layer on the mountain's...

Nasa's Juno Spacecraft Completes Flyby Over Jupiter's Great Red Spot
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Nasa's Juno Spacecraft Completes Flyby Over Jupiter's Great Red Spot

NASA's Juno mission completed a close flyby of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot on July 10, during its sixth science orbit.

Sleuthing For Seismic Answers in the Sooner State
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Sleuthing For Seismic Answers in the Sooner State

Oklahomans are no strangers to Mother Nature's whims.

Nasa Completes Study of Future 'ice Giant' Mission Concepts
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Nasa Completes Study of Future 'ice Giant' Mission Concepts

A NASA-led and NASA-sponsored study of potential future missions to the mysterious "ice giant" planets Uranus and Neptune has been released—the first in a series...

Nustar's First Five Years in Space
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Nustar's First Five Years in Space

Five years ago, on June 13, 2012, Caltech's Fiona Harrison, principal investigator of NASA's NuSTAR mission, watched with her team as their black-hole-spying spacecraft...

Nasa Finds Evidence of Diverse Environments in Curiosity Samples
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Nasa Finds Evidence of Diverse Environments in Curiosity Samples

NASA scientists have found a wide diversity of minerals in the initial samples of rocks collected by the Curiosity rover in the lowermost layers of Mount Sharp...

Nasa's Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft a Discovery Machine
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Nasa's Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft a Discovery Machine

NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has released its third year of survey data, with the spacecraft discovering 97 previously...

Curiosity Peels Back Layers on Ancient Martian Lake
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Curiosity Peels Back Layers on Ancient Martian Lake

A long-lasting lake on ancient Mars provided stable environmental conditions that differed significantly from one part of the lake to another, according to a comprehensive...

High-Silica 'halos' Shed Light on Wet Ancient Mars
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High-Silica 'halos' Shed Light on Wet Ancient Mars

Pale "halos" around fractures in bedrock analyzed by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover contain copious silica, indicating that ancient Mars had liquid water for a long...

A Whole New Jupiter: First Science Results from Nasa's Juno Mission
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A Whole New Jupiter: First Science Results from Nasa's Juno Mission

Early science results from NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized...

Nasa Asks Scientific Community to Think on Possible Europa Lander Instruments
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Nasa Asks Scientific Community to Think on Possible Europa Lander Instruments

NASA is asking scientists to consider what would be the best instruments to include on a mission to land on Jupiter's icy moon, Europa.
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