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These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 ...

Launched with 1970s technology, the Voyager probes were sent on a path through the seemingly deadly asteroid belt and past the rings of gas giants. This is the story of how they navigated these cosmic ...

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The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. Scientists measure the distance to ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.

If we find technological satellites of Jupiter that we did not send, it would imply that Jupiter is of interest to an ...