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In less than two years, the New Horizons space probe is going to go whizzing by an object a billion miles further ...

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NASA is running out of plutonium. The space agency uses Pu-238 to fuel many of its deep space missions, including ...

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Beamed across billions of miles and a very narrow bandwidth, the latest images from the Pluto flyby were worth ...

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Just as expected, the images of Pluto keep getting better and better as the New Horizons spacecraft swoops ever ...

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In 1977, the Voyager 2 spacecraft took advantage of an alternate route leaving Saturn that took it on a trajectory ...

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