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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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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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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
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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
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NASA sent a spaceship rocketing by an asteroid — and discovered the space rock has a little baby one dancing around it
NASA's Lucy spacecraft discovered that the asteroid Dinkinesh is actually a binary asteroid system.
Sonam Sheth
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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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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…
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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How an $18-an-hour Amazon warehouse job cured one former tech exec's burnout
Former Microsoft and Facebook exec Phillip Su said his role as a seasonal Amazon worker helped lift…
Avery Hartmans
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot shrunk took 350 years to shrink to one-third its original size
A new study predicts that even though it’s not any less thick, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is definite…
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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
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Elon Musk: We need to leave Earth as soon as possible for one critical reason
In his blog post, Urban gives us another way to think about it: Imagine Earth as a hard drive, and …