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After 45 years, the 5-billion-year legacy of the Voyager 2 interstellar probe is just beginning On Aug. 20, 1977, 45 years ago, an extraordinary spacecraft left this planet on a journey like no other. Voyager 2 was going to show us, for the first time, what the outer solar system planets looked like close-up. It was like sending a fly to New York ...
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New images of ancient waterways of Mars could unlock the secrets of planet's past The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft captured impressive images of the Holden Basin on Mars, part of an area key for the ongoing search for life on the Red Planet. The images and further investigation of the region could help reveal how ...
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Frank Drake, Who Led Search for Life on Other Planets, Dies at 92 Frank Drake, who pointed a radio telescope at a pair of stars in 1960 hoping to find alien civilizations and thus kindled a continuing endeavor called the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, died on Friday at his home in Aptos, Calif.
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ESA's Solar orbiter just got smacked by a coronal mass ejection The sun-exploring Solar Orbiter spacecraft came face to face with a massive eruption of plasma from the sun, just ahead of a pivotal flyby of Venus. An enormous coronal mass ejection (CME), a burst of charged particles from the sun's upper atmosphere, ...
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See Venus pair up with Regulus on Monday (Sept. 5) On and around Labor Day, Monday Sept. 5, 2022, sky watchers on Earth will have the opportunity to see Venus move next to the bright star Regulus. The conjunction between the brightest planet in the night-sky, Venus, and the brightest star in the ...
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Astronauts' blood shows signs of DNA mutations due to spaceflight Astronaut cancer risk needs careful monitoring, concludes a study that stored spaceflyer blood for 20 years. All fourteen astronauts in the study, from NASA's space shuttle program, had DNA mutations in blood- ...
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The power of awe and the cosmos The images to emerge from the James Webb Space Telescope have captured details of the cosmos never seen before, leaving the scientific community and public alike in a state of awe. In a Tweet, former President Barack Obama described them as ...
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Mission into the unknown: Voyager probes celebrate 45 years in space In February 2013, the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) spotted Voyager 1's faint radio signal, confirming it to be the most distant object built by human hands. At the time, this robotic emissary of Earth was 11.5 billion miles (18.5 billion kilometers) ...
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Gamma rays from a dwarf galaxy solve an astronomical puzzle A glowing blob known as "the cocoon," which appears to be inside one of the enormous gamma-ray emanations from the center of our galaxy dubbed the "Fermi bubbles," has puzzled astronomers since it was discovered in 2012.
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Scientists Create Cyborg Cockroaches Controlled by Solar-Powered Backpacks The second thing to know about the Madagascar hissing cockroach is that scientists have used it to create insect cyborgs that could one day be used to monitor the environment or help with urban search and rescue missions after a natural disaster. Also ...
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