After a journey of billions of kilometers, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has culminated in a small black capsule blazing …
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Voyager 2 Has Lost Track of Earth. Only One Antenna in the World Can Help It ‘Phone Home’
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesIn 1977, five years before ET asked to “phone home,” two robotic spacecraft began their own journeys into …
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New Results from NASA’s DART Planetary Defense Mission Confirm We Can Deflect Deadly Asteroids
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesWhat would we do if we spotted a hazardous asteroid on a collision course with Earth? Could we …
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The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite launched into Earth orbit on Friday, December 16, from Vandenberg …
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A space telescope designed to search for the hardest-to-find asteroids and comets that stray into Earth’s orbital neighborhood, …
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40-Year Study Finds Mysterious Patterns in Temperatures on Jupiter
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesScientists have completed the longest-ever study tracking temperatures in Jupiter’s upper troposphere, the layer of the atmosphere where …
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NASA Gets an Unusually Close Glimpse of a Black Hole Snacking on a Star
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesRecent observations of a black hole devouring a wandering star may help scientists understand more complex black hole-feeding …
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Since NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft intentionally slammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on Sept. 26 — altering its …
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When NASA’s Mars rovers found manganese oxides in rocks in the Gale and Endeavor craters in 2014, the …
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New Study Confirms the Light From Outside Our Galaxy Is Brighter Than Expected
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesScientists analyzed new measurements showing that the light emitted by stars outside our galaxy is two to three …