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Scientists Pinpoint Saturn With Exquisite Accuracy
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Scientists Pinpoint Saturn With Exquisite Accuracy

Scientists have paired NASA's Cassini spacecraft with the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio-telescope system to pinpoint the position...

Dawn Spacecraft Begins Approach to Dwarf Planet Ceres
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Dawn Spacecraft Begins Approach to Dwarf Planet Ceres

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has entered an approach phase in which it will continue to close in on Ceres, a Texas-sized dwarf planet never before visited by a spacecraft...

Sun Sizzles in High-Energy X-Rays
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Sun Sizzles in High-Energy X-Rays

For the first time, a mission designed to set its eyes on black holes and other objects far from our solar system has turned its gaze back closer to home, capturing...

NASA Voyager: 'Tsunami Wave' Still Flies Through Interstellar Space
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NASA Voyager: 'Tsunami Wave' Still Flies Through Interstellar Space

The Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced three shock waves. The most recent shock wave, first observed in February 2014, still appears to be going on. One wave,...

Signs of Ancient Mars Lakes and Quakes Seen in New Map
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Signs of Ancient Mars Lakes and Quakes Seen in New Map

Long ago, in the largest canyon system in our solar system, vibrations from "marsquakes" shook soft sediments that had accumulated in Martian lakes.

Opals: Light Beams Let Data Rates Soar
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Opals: Light Beams Let Data Rates Soar

You may know opals as fiery gemstones, but something special called OPALS is floating above us in space. On the International Space Station, the Optical Payload...

Saturn's Moons: What a Difference a Decade Makes
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Saturn's Moons: What a Difference a Decade Makes

Almost immediately after NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft made their brief visits to Saturn in the early 1980s, scientists were hungry for more.

Nasa's Curiosity Rover Finds Clues to How Water Helped Shape Martian Landscape
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Nasa's Curiosity Rover Finds Clues to How Water Helped Shape Martian Landscape

Observations by NASA's Curiosity Rover indicate Mars' Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years.

Dawn Snaps Its Best-Yet Image of Dwarf Planet Ceres
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Dawn Snaps Its Best-Yet Image of Dwarf Planet Ceres

The Dawn spacecraft has delivered a glimpse of Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, in a new image taken 740,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from...

Nasa Issues 'remastered' View of Jupiter's Moon Europa
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Nasa Issues 'remastered' View of Jupiter's Moon Europa

Scientists have produced a new version of what is perhaps NASA's best view of Jupiter's ice-covered moon, Europa.

Researchers Advance 'quantum Teleportation'
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Researchers Advance 'quantum Teleportation'

The world at the quantum level, at the scale of particles too small for the eye to see, is very strange.

Newest Nasa Mars Orbiter Demonstrates Relay Prowess
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Newest Nasa Mars Orbiter Demonstrates Relay Prowess

The newest node in NASA's Mars telecommunications network—a radio aboard the MAVEN orbiter custom-designed for data links with robots on the surface of Mars—handled...

Nasa's Curiosity Mars Rover Finds Mineral Match
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Nasa's Curiosity Mars Rover Finds Mineral Match

Reddish rock powder from the first hole drilled into a Martian mountain by NASA's Curiosity rover has yielded the mission's first confirmation of a mineral mapped...

Cassini Sees Sunny Seas on Titan
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Cassini Sees Sunny Seas on Titan

As it soared past Saturn's large moon Titan recently, NASA's Cassini spacecraft caught a glimpse of bright sunlight reflecting off hydrocarbon seas.

Rosetta's Comet Scrambling Its Jets
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Rosetta's Comet Scrambling Its Jets

This image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken by Rosetta's Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS) on Sept. 20, from a distance...

Galactic Wheel of Life Shines in Infrared
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Galactic Wheel of Life Shines in Infrared

It might look like a spoked wheel or even a "Chakram" weapon wielded by warriors like "Xena," from the fictional TV show, but this ringed galaxy is actually a vast...

All Three NASA Mars Orbiters Healthy After Comet Flyby
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All Three NASA Mars Orbiters Healthy After Comet Flyby

All three NASA orbiters around Mars confirmed their healthy status Sunday after each took shelter behind Mars during a period of risk from dust released by a passing...

Cassini Caught in Hyperion's Particle Beam
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Cassini Caught in Hyperion's Particle Beam

Static electricity is known to play an important role on Earth's airless, dusty moon, but evidence of static charge building up on other objects in the solar system...

Nasa Mission Provides Its First Look at Martian Upper Atmosphere
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Nasa Mission Provides Its First Look at Martian Upper Atmosphere

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars, produced...

Nasa Prepares its Science Fleet For Oct. 19 Mars Comet Encounter
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Nasa Prepares its Science Fleet For Oct. 19 Mars Comet Encounter

NASA's extensive fleet of science assets, particularly those orbiting and roving Mars, have front row seats to image and study a once-in-a-lifetime comet flyby...
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