The New Horizons spacecraft does a fly-by of ‘Ultima Thule’ as the new year dawns.
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NASA spacecraft is ancient asteroid’s 1st visitor in billions of years
The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex will go into orbit around Bennu on Dec. 31.
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Our View: Mars landing shows we can reach the stars
The touchdown of InSight may provide elusive answers to our own origins.
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NASA turning over moon landing efforts to companies in the private sector
The space agency will be one of multiple customers using the services, with a goal of getting small science and technology experiments to the lunar surface as soon as possible.
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NASA accepts delivery of European powerhouse for moonship
The service module will propel the Orion capsule to the moon during a test flight without passengers planned for 2020.
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Russian and U.S. astronauts safe after rocket failure forces harrowing descent
They were in mid-launch for a trip to the to the International Space Station when the mission was aborted and their capsule descended 31 miles, landing on a barren area in Kazakhstan.
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NASA sending a tiny robot helicopter to Mars
The robot is the size of chihuahua and will fly inside the Mars 2020 rover when that launches in two years.
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NASA’s only moon rover just got canceled
Members of the Resource Prospector mission are instructed to close out the project by the end of May.