Articles filed under Science
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Side of the moon you can't see 'is not dark, it's just far'Jan 03, 2019 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite the name of Pink Floyd's best-selling album, the side of the moon you can't see isn't always dark. But it is far. So scientists call the area w...
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NASA: Icy object past Pluto looks like reddish snowmanJan 03, 2019 6:00 am - LAUREL, Md. (AP) - A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicti...
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Spacecraft opens new year with flyby on solar system's edgeJan 01, 2019 6:00 am - LAUREL, Md. (AP) - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft pulled off the most distant exploration of another world Tuesday, skimming past a tiny, icy object 4 billion miles from...
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Scientists say NASA spacecraft has survived its most distant encounter with another worldJan 01, 2019 6:00 am - LAUREL, Maryland (AP) - Scientists say NASA spacecraft has survived its most distant encounter with another world. ...
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The Latest: NASA spacecraft dashes by world beyond PlutoJan 01, 2019 6:00 am - LAUREL, Md. (AP) - The Latest on NASA's New Horizons' New Year rendezvous (all times local): 10: 40 a.m. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has survived humanity's most dist...
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NASA spacecraft enters orbit around asteroid, sets recordsDec 31, 2018 6:00 am - LAUREL, Md. (AP) - A NASA spacecraft has gone into orbit around an ancient asteroid, setting a pair of records. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft entered orbit Monday around the...
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Pluto explorer ushering in new year at more distant worldDec 27, 2018 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The spacecraft team that brought us close-ups of Pluto will ring in the new year by exploring an even more distant and mysterious world. NASA...
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Oil pipeline triggers a winter of frigid protest in MichiganDec 27, 2018 12:00 am - LEVERING, Mich. - By midafternoon, the snow had picked up - tiny, innocuous flecks becoming heavy, wet drops - but no one at Camp Anishinaabek seemed to notice. There we...
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Russia: Hole drilled from inside Int'l Space Station capsuleDec 24, 2018 6:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian cosmonaut who explored a mysterious hole in a capsule docked to the International Space Station said Monday that the opening was drilled from ins...
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SpaceX launches Air Force's best GPS yet, ends banner yearDec 23, 2018 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - SpaceX has launched the U.S. Air Force's most powerful GPS satellite ever built. A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, ...