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This spacecraft swarm could spot interstellar visitors zipping through our solar system
While not an alien spacecraft, 'Oumuamua was an interstellar object (ISO), which came from another planetary system far, far away — and traveled at the blazingly fast speed of 196,000 miles per ...
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NASA's daredevil solar spacecraft survives 2nd close flyby of our sun
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its second close flyby of the sun, the space agency announced earlier this week. The car-sized spacecraft swooped within 3.8 million miles (6.1 ...
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European Gaia spacecraft is shut down, sent into 'retirement orbit' around the Sun
March 27 (UPI) --The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering. A control team at the ESA's European Space Operations Center ...
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NASA's daredevil solar spacecraft survives 2nd close flyby of our sun
NASA's Parker Solar Probe successfully completed its second science-gathering flyby of the sun, the space agency announced on Tuesday (March 25). | Credit: Steve Gribben/NASA/Johns Hopkins APL ...
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A NASA spacecraft will make another close pass of the sun
NEW YORK (AP) — A NASA spacecraft will make another close brush with the sun, the second of three planned encounters through the sizzling solar atmosphere. Webb Space Telescope captures a star ...
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NASA to launch asteroid hunting spacecraft in 2027
PASADENA, Calif. — After NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space agency is gearing up for another project: a spacecraft targeting asteroids.
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Why so many spacecraft carry magnetometers
The public is enamored of images returned to Earth by space probes. Whether they show the moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, or the icy surface of Pluto, these captivating images garner loads ...
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Asteroid Mining Startup Loses Its Spacecraft Somewhere Beyond the Moon
A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet. Odin is around 270,000 miles (434,522 kilometers) away from Earth ...
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NASA's historic Voyager spacecraft shut down to save power
Space technology is always one step ahead. With the rapid advances in this sector, drastic decisions have to be made with regard to some spacecraft. This has been the case with NASA's twin ...
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Scientists Struggle to Communicate With 2 Spacecraft Launched Wednesday
Scientists are struggling to maintain contact with not one, but two spacecraft launched alongside a new commercial lunar lander on Wednesday. NASA's Lunar Trailblazer, which aims to map the Moon's ...
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A NASA spacecraft will make another close pass of the sun
NEW YORK (AP) — A NASA spacecraft will make another close brush with the sun, the second of three planned encounters through the sizzling solar atmosphere. This new molecule could point the way ...