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Is Pluto a planet? Here’s why scientists gave it a cosmic demotion
Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid
Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...
Remember when Pluto was a planet? Here’s 10 photos NASA took of the dwarf planet
Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...
The Wild Plan to Terraform Mars by Slamming Asteroids Into It
If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...
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Lucy spacecraft gears up for potential asteroid close encounter this weekend
Rather, Levison said the asteroid may resemble a bowling pin or even a snowman like Arrokoth, the Kuiper Belt object visited by NASA's New Horizon spacecraft in 2019. The other possibility is that ...
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Iconic Sombrero Galaxy shines in reprocessed Hubble Telescope view (image)
Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space ...
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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid
Rather, Levison said the asteroid may resemble a bowling pin or even a snowman like Arrokoth, the Kuiper Belt object visited by NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft in 2019. The other possibility is ...