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Amazing Solar Orbiter Views Of Mercury Transiting The Sun
ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the ...
‘SPACE’ asks what it meant for female astronauts to have a dream deferred
The new Central Square Theater production brings the history of women aviators in America to life.
How space missions make discoveries on the way to their main destinations
To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...
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NASA pauses work by key space science groups amid Trump executive orders
The space agency's planetary science analysis groups must pause while NASA checks if they comply with Trump's orders.
When to watch tonight's full moon — next to Venus — amid rare February planetary parade
A great week of Maryland star gazing will kick off tonight with the full moon rising next to Venus and a rare planetary parade this month.
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Spacecraft buzzes Mercury's north pole and beams back stunning photos
A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole.The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury's ...
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In pictures: Mercury spacecraft captures stunning new images of one of the least explored planets
A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet.
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See the amazing images of Mercury captured by the BepiColombo mission
Flying over Mercury's north pole gave the spacecraft's monitoring camera 1 (M-CAM 1) a unique opportunity to peer down into the shadowy polar craters. M-CAM 1 took this long-exposure photograph of ...