Science and reality
New Horizons picked up a strange spectral signature from a crater named after a famed extraterrestrial princess.
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Starting around 8 am Eastern time, two American astronauts stepped outside the comfort of the International Space Station and into the emptiness of space.
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NASA's Cassini space probe makes its second-to-last passage of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.
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Space photos of the week, October 18–24.
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Sometimes, the best places to do science are also the most remote.
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The Kepler Space Telescope found a pattern of flickers that could be evidence of an alien race. Except not.
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Space photos of the week, October 11–17.
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The orbiter captured illuminated images of the moon's jagged fractures and deep craters.
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It's been three months since New Horizons flew through the Pluto system, and the science it sent back finally went through peer review.
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Today's flyby of the icy moon is a curtain raiser for another even closer approach.
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