Getting up close and personal with Pluto's atmosphere and exotic ices.
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New Photos of Pluto’s Haze, Backlit and In Glorious Detail
Watch: New Horizons Begins to Send Back All Its Pluto Pics
It'll take a year for New Horizons to send back all the information it gathered on Pluto when it flew by the dwarf planet in July.
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What’s So Special About Low Earth Orbit?
Just about all of our human exploration of space has been in low Earth orbit, but what exactly is it and why is it special?
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Space Photos of the Week: Even MOAR Pluto
Space photos of the week, September 6–12.
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Surprise $2B Bid Could Be Trouble for Bezos’ Space Company
The rocket engine-maker Aerojet Rocketdyne has bid $2 billion to buy United Launch Alliance, the government's favorite rocket launcher.
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The First Pluto Photos From New Horizons’ Massive Data Dump
The New Horizons space probe has started a year-long data dump of imagery and other large files taken during its July flyby.
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NASA’s Dirt-Scanning Satellite Is Down to a Single Peeper
The flashy new soil mapping satellite has a black eye that isn't going to heal.
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SETI’s Top Astrobiologist Has a Plan to Find Life on Mars
Nathalie Cabrol just took the reins of the Carl Sagan Center at the extraterrestrial search organization. And she has some big ideas about where it's going.
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Watch the Next Three Astronauts Launch to the ISS
NASA will stream the launch live starting at 11:45 PM east coast time.
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NASA’s Failed Orion Parachute Test Was a Success
NASA didn't deploy two of the parachutes---on purpose.
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