NASA space probe swings by Jupiter
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NASA's New Horizon's space probe was pointed toward Pluto and the frozen, sunless reaches of the solar system on a nine-year journey after getting a gravity boost Wednesday from Jupiter.
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A flyby by a Nasa unmanned space probe has revealed evidence of "widespread" volcanism on the planet Mercury.
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Early-morning risers this week will be treated to a wonderful display of planetary motion, as Venus and Jupiter cross each other&#39;s path in the eastern sky before dawn.
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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have photographed one of the smallest objects ever seen around a normal star beyond our Sun. Weighing in at 12 times the mass of Jupiter, the object is small enough to be a planet.
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A NASA spacecraft will fly by the planet Mercury on Monday, the first visit to the sun's closest neighbor since the 1970s.
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A European-designed space probe broke away from its NASA mothership on Friday on a plunge toward the mysterious Saturn moon Titan, starting a journey researchers hope will end with answers about one of the most puzzling bodies in the solar system.
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PASADENA - Northrop Grumman Space Technology has been selected to help NASA design a nuclear-powered spacecraft to orbit and explore three moons of Jupiter that may have oceans beneath their icy surfaces.
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NASA this weekend is set to launch a spacecraft that will journey to the asteroid belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter, a mission that involves a rendezvous with two of the solar system's largest asteroids.
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When the space station passes across the Sun or moon, the scene offers an interesting demonstration of how planet hunter's look for new candidates by measuring the periodic dimming of a parent star.
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In this artist&#39;s conception, a plasma station, lower left, applies a magnetized beam of ionized plasma to the sails of a spacecraft bound for Jupiter.
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LA CANADA, Calif.  - A European-designed space  probe broke away from its NASA mothership on Friday on a plunge  toward the mysterious Saturn moon Titan, starting a journey  researchers hope will end with answers about one of the most  puzzling bodies in the solar system.
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NASA sets a rocket in motion toward a comet, hoping to gain knowledge of the comet's makeup.
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A new space probe has been sent out to try to discover the secrets of Titan, Saturn&#39;s largest moon. The American spacecraft Cassini, orbiting Saturn, has launched the probe Huygens on a course to reach Titan in about three weeks&#39; time.
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A Nasa mission to study the phenomenon known as the northern lights blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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When floating through space, and orbiting the Earth, an astronaut witnesses a sunset and sunrise every 45 minutes. Exploring beyond the atmosphere furthers
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A NASA spacecraft lifted off on Wednesday on the first leg of a six-month journey to blast a hole in a comet and study what lies beneath.
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Ice particles are key players in the ever-changing panorama at Saturn, according to a new study led by a University of Colorado at Boulder professor using an instrument on the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft now at the ringed planet.