A Japanese space explorer took off Wednesday on a six-year journey to blow a crater in a remote asteroid and bring back rock samples in hopes of gathering clues to the origin of Earth.
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Dec 3, 2014
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Japan on Sunday delayed the launch of a space probe designed to mine an asteroid for a second time due to bad weather.
Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2014
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Japan on Monday will launch a space probe on a six-year mission to mine a distant asteroid after the event was postponed due to bad weather, officials said.
Space Exploration
Nov 29, 2014
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Scientists have released a brief recording of the sound that Europe's space probe Philae made when it became the first to land on a comet last week.
Space Exploration
Nov 20, 2014
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China launched its first space mission to the moon and back early Friday, authorities said, the latest step forward for Beijing's ambitious programme to one day land a Chinese citizen on the Earth's only natural satellite.
Space Exploration
Oct 24, 2014
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Oil-rich United Arab Emirates on Monday launched a project that aims to send the first Arab unmanned probe to Mars by 2021.
Space Exploration
Oct 20, 2014
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When space probes, such as Rosetta and Cassini, fly over certain planets and moons in order to gain momentum and travel long distances, their speed changes slightly for an unknown reason. A Spanish researcher has now analysed ...
Space Exploration
Sep 22, 2014
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Japanese space scientists have unveiled the asteroid hunting space probe they hope to launch later this year on a mission to mine a celestial body.
Space Exploration
Sep 2, 2014
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(Phys.org) —NASA's twin Van Allen Probes will celebrate on Saturday two years of studying the sun's influence on our planet and near-Earth space. The probes, shortly after launch in August 2012, discovered a third radiation ...
Space Exploration
Sep 1, 2014
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The space probe Rosetta on Wednesday made a historic rendezvous with a comet, climaxing a 10-year, six-billion-kilometre (3.7-billion-mile) chase through the Solar System, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
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Aug 6, 2014
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