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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule on Jan. 1. Data collected from the flyby provides insight into Earth's building blocks.
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What happens when there’s an emergency on a spacecraft 75 million miles away? Operators of the Kepler deep space telescope ran into that problem recently when a scheduled check-in proved to be a bit more difficult than expected.
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What happens when there’s an emergency on a spacecraft 75 million miles away? Operators of the Kepler deep space telescope ran into that problem recently when a scheduled check-in proved to be a bit more difficult than expected.
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Planetary scientists want Pluto classified as a planet again, and a petition to reconsider planet hood is gaining momentum.
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After almost a decade, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its closest pass to Pluto. The deep space probe will survey the surface of the icy dwarf-planet and send back photos never before seen. Intersection’s Brendan Byrne talks with the mission's principal investigator Doctor Alan Stern about the mission.
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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is making its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday morning. The deep space probe will survey the surface of the icy dwarf-planet and send back photos never before seen.
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After nearly a decade of traveling through space, NASA's New Horizons probe is about to arrive at Pluto. On Tuesday it will begin an intensive, weeklong study of the distant world.