Hawking tackled the biggest question of all—how did the universe begin?
With the death of Stephen Hawking, the world has lost an adventurer.
With the death of Stephen Hawking, the world has lost an adventurer.
Astronomy
Mar 15, 2018
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As NASA's New Horizons mission continues exploring the unknown, the mission team has selected a highly appropriate nickname for its next flyby target in the outer reaches of the solar system.
Space Exploration
Mar 14, 2018
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image – and made history.
Space Exploration
Feb 9, 2018
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The New Year's celebration to usher in 2019 will include an event like no other – more than four billion miles from Earth.
Space Exploration
Jan 5, 2018
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The field for NASA's next New Frontiers mission is narrowing. Officials announced the two finalists for a new robotic explorer mission—one that would send a spacecraft to bring samples of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ...
Space Exploration
Dec 21, 2017
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Scientists were already excited to learn this summer that New Horizons' next flyby target – a Kuiper Belt object a billion miles past Pluto – might be either peanut-shaped or even two objects orbiting one another. Now ...
Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2017
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Back in October, the announcement that the first interstellar asteroid triggered a flurry of excitement. Since that time, astronomers have conducted follow-up observations of the object known as 1I/2017 U1 (aka. 'Oumuamua) ...
Space Exploration
Nov 24, 2017
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The gas composition of a planet's atmosphere generally determines how much heat gets trapped in the atmosphere. For the dwarf planet Pluto, however, the predicted temperature based on the composition of its atmosphere was ...
Space Exploration
Nov 15, 2017
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NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt is looking for your ideas on what to informally name its next flyby destination, a billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) past Pluto.
Space Exploration
Nov 7, 2017
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NASA's New Horizons mission revolutionized our knowledge of Pluto when it flew past that distant world in July 2015. Among its many discoveries were images of strange formations resembling giant knife blades of ice, whose ...
Space Exploration
Sep 27, 2017
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