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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope takes its 1st cosmic images: 'The instrument team nailed it'
This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...
Meet NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11: The Astronauts Launching to Shape Humanity’s Future in Space
Four astronauts from NASA, JAXA, and Roscosmos are teaming up for an ambitious mission aboard the International Space Station ...
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Nasa space probe survives Mars landing
An unmanned Nasa space probe has plunged through the atmosphere ... The rover could start taking pictures of the Red Planet later today. "We could get part of a panorama this evening.
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Low on power and spinning out of control, NASA's Lunar Trailblazer moon probe's future looks grim
Lunar Trailblazer flight controllers are using NASA's Deep Space Network ... spacecraft's flight path toward the moon. Ideally, future TCMs would put the probe into its planned science orbit ...
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NASA tweaks Voyager probes to help them hit a half century of service
A pair of extraordinary space missions that have ... century are getting a new lease on life as NASA engineers order the Voyager 1 and 2 deep-space probes to shut down two instruments to save ...
Webb telescope images of exoplanets "stunned researchers," offer insight into carbon dioxide, NASA says
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
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NASA squeezes more life from 47-year-old Voyager probes
Voyager 1 and 2 continue to make history every day, as they transmit data back to Earth while traveling further into deep space ... probes into interstellar monuments to themselves. However, NASA ...
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Next month NASA's Lucy probe will visit an asteroid that's been waiting 150 million years to say hello
Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's depiction of the Lucy spacecraft flying past a pair of Trojan asteroids. | Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center The ...
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NASA is making sacrifices to keep the Voyager mission alive
Instruments on Voyagers 1 and 2 are being shut off to keep the probes ... space, farther from Earth than any other human-made objects, their nuclear batteries are depleting — but NASA is taking ...
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NASA’s Voyager Probes Lose One Instrument Each as Power Wanes
NASA’s most distant observers are losing steam as the toll of spending nearly five decades in space adds up. Scientists have announced that they will turn off one additional instrument on each ...
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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Is Officially Lost in Space -- but Maybe Not Forever
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission is in jeopardy. It launched on Feb. 27 to send a probe to the moon in search of water. But less than a week after launch, NASA lost track of the spacecraft, which ...
As NASA faces cuts, China reveals ambitious plans for planetary exploration
Additionally, China is also investing in a human lunar program, seeking to land its own astronauts on the surface of the Moon ...