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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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The flashy new soil mapping satellite has a black eye that isn't going to heal.
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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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NASA will stream the launch live starting at 11:45 PM east coast time.
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NASA didn't deploy two of the parachutes---on purpose.
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Space photos of the week, August 15–22.
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A new paper pretty much rules out the notion that periodic comet impacts could be replenishing Pluto's nitrogen atmosphere.
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Space photos of the week, August 9–13.
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An engine that will help propel NASA's Orion spacecraft toward its deep-space missions underwent a test today.
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Three Japanese satellites saw the Chinese port explosion happen from space.
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