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All you need to know about NASA’s Lucy mission, the first spacecraft flying to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids
NASA is readying its Lucy mission that is scheduled to take off on October 16 next week. This will …
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft captures images of Earth, Moon ahead of gravity assist
A NASA spacecraft named Lucy, the first mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, has captured an st…
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NASA's 'Lucy' is going to travel 4 billion miles to explore seven Trojan asteroids — and an asteroid Moon
While conducting reconnaissance on their first target — Eurybates — the team was surprised to …
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A mind-boggling photo from NASA's Lucy probe shows how far the moon is from Earth. Can you spot it?
NASA's Lucy spacecraft snapped a rare photo of Earth and the moon together. The moon is farther and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen  Â
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Watch NASA launch a spacecraft to explore ancient asteroids that lead and trail Jupiter around the sun
The Trojan asteroids have barely changed since the birth of our solar system. NASA's Lucy mission a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen  Â
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Space 2021: All the Mars landings, eclipses, astronaut flights, rocket launches, and other big missions to look for this year
In 2021, we'll see nine meteor showers. Boeing and SpaceX should launch humans into orbit, and NASA…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Susie N…  Â
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Boeing's spaceship launch for NASA is seriously delayed as 'disappointing' technical issues send it back to the factory
Starliner is supposed to fly astronauts for NASA someday, but it keeps having "significant" technic…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen  Â
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This space mission could save Earth from killer asteroids - but NASA keeps hitting the snooze button
Take the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), for example, which is one of Earth's best current …
Dave Mosher  Â
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NASA just announced it will probe a dead planet's core
"[W]hen NASA says that there have been 12 Discovery missions, consider that 10 of them were selecte…
Dave Mosher  Â
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NASA will pay private companies up to $2.6 billion to get the US back to the moon for the first time in nearly 50 years
One of the nine companies NASA named, Astrobotic, formed in 2007 during the Google Lunar X Prize. T…
Dave Mosher  Â
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Elon Musk has the perfect argument for raising NASA's budget
By "life insurance," Musk means establishing a thriving human colony on another planet before a cat…
Kelly Dickerson  Â
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Astronaut says a neglected telescope is NASA's best chance of defending Earth from 'city killer' asteroids - 'for God's sake, fund it'
The NASA competition it was a part of, called Discovery, values scientific firsts - not ensuring hu…
Dave Mosher  Â
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A diamond-encrusted meteorite that fell to Earth may come from a long-lost planet in our solar system
"Diamonds very often encapsulate and trap minerals and melts present in their formation environment…
Dave Mosher  Â
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An asteroid just flew by Earth two times closer than the moon - and we barely saw it coming
Had a porous rock asteroid of 111 feet (34 meters) long hit Earth at a 45-degree angle, the simulat…
Dave Mosher  Â
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College is so expensive, this 27-year-old rocket scientist created a homeless shelter for students
The shelter has nine beds and welcomes college students from the Los Angeles area (a majority come …