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The Hubble Space Telescope turns 35 as NASA budget cuts loom. How many more birthdays will it have?
It's up in the air how much longer the beloved telescope will be with us.
NASA's Mars orbiter captures 1st photo of Curiosity and its winding tracks: Take a look
Curiosity rover is hunting for microbial life on Mars. NASA reconnaissance orbiter snapped its first-ever image of Curiosity ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images
A NASA spacecraft recently got an up ... youngest in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter ever visited by a spacecraft. Discovered in 1981, Donaldjohanson is named after ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft to zoom past asteroid this weekend at 30,000 mph: "We don't know what to expect"
NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.
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Semiconductors: The Unsung Heroes in Space Exploration
From the very first Cold War Geiger counters that were Sputnik and Explorer-1, to the autonomous robots of Mars, asteroid ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin
NASA's Lucy spacecraft ... asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's named for the paleontologist who discovered the fossil Lucy 50 years ago in Ethiopia.The spacecraft was launched in 2021 ...
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Keeping Voyager Alive: NASA’s Project Scientist Faces Painful Choices as the Iconic Mission Nears Its End
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Gizmodo: How does it feel now that the mission is approaching its end? Spilker: We’re hoping to get one or both spacecraft to Voyager’s golden anniversary ...