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It’s full of stars! NASA’s planet-hunting TESS probe sends back its first test image
Read more →: It’s full of stars! NASA’s planet-hunting TESS probe sends back its first test imageThis test image from one of the four cameras aboard the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, captures…
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First interplanetary CubeSats already setting records in deep space
Read more →: First interplanetary CubeSats already setting records in deep spaceArtist’s concept of the MarCO CubeSats. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Two CubeSats developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory launched May…
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Asteroid Institute’s first fellows come with credentials that are out of this world
Read more →: Asteroid Institute’s first fellows come with credentials that are out of this worldThe Asteroid Detection Analysis and Mapping software, or ADAM, can plot the courses of multiple asteroids and other…
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Frosty vs. Leaky: Spacewalkers shuffle spare coolant pumps at space station
Read more →: Frosty vs. Leaky: Spacewalkers shuffle spare coolant pumps at space stationNews Brief: Two NASA spacewalkers repositioned a pair of spare coolant pumps outside the International Space Station today…
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New target dates set for next two Falcon 9 launches
Read more →: New target dates set for next two Falcon 9 launchesThe two GRACE-Follow On Earth science satellites are mounted atop five Iridium Next satellites in preparation for liftoff…
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Astronauts reposition space station cooling pumps on successful spacewalk
Read more →: Astronauts reposition space station cooling pumps on successful spacewalkEDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 2:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT) after end of spacewalk. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH…
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How number crunchers could help crack the cosmological mystery of dark energy
Read more →: How number crunchers could help crack the cosmological mystery of dark energyBerkeley astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter discusses the implications of the universe’s accelerating expansion at the University of Washington. (GeekWire…
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Arch Mission teams up with Astrobotic to send Wikipedia and more to the moon
Read more →: Arch Mission teams up with Astrobotic to send Wikipedia and more to the moonThe Lunar Library will be stored as microfiche images etched on stamp-sized squares of nickel. A dime is…
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Smallest interplanetary probe snaps a picture of our Pale Blue Dot (and the moon)
Read more →: Smallest interplanetary probe snaps a picture of our Pale Blue Dot (and the moon)The nanosatellite known as MarCO-B or WALL-E took this picture of Earth and the moon from a distance…
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Helicopter to accompany NASA’s next Mars rover to Red Planet
Read more →: Helicopter to accompany NASA’s next Mars rover to Red PlanetArtist’s concept of the Mars Helicopter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A flying drone fitted with counter-rotating blades, on-board autonomy, and…
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Water plumes on Europa detected by Galileo spacecraft
Read more →: Water plumes on Europa detected by Galileo spacecraftSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s illustration of the Galileo spacecraft, Europa and Jupiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University…
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21-year-old readings boost the case for water plumes spraying out from Europa
Read more →: 21-year-old readings boost the case for water plumes spraying out from EuropaAn artist’s conception shows the Galileo spacecraft passing through a plume erupting from the surface of Europa, an…