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Episode 110 —Voyager 1’s Brush with Silence

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Dr. Sarah Adams

On Episode 110 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with Linda Spilker, Voyager project scientist, about the recent rescue ...

Laser on NASA’s Psyche asteroid probe beams data from 140 million miles away

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Late last year, NASA scientists pressed start on a highly anticipated space mission. Basically, they launched a spacecraft toward an asteroid that ...

New NASA video tracks Mars helicopter’s 72 flights

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Dr. Sarah Adams

NASA’s history-making Ingenuity helicopter covered a lot of ground on Mars over the past three years, as a new video shows. The ...

Ingenuity team says goodbye to pioneering Mars helicopter

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Saying goodbye is never easy, especially from a world away. The Ingenuity Mars helicopter team convened one last time on Tuesday (April ...

NASA Is Still Fighting to Save Its Historic Voyager 1 Spacecraft

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Dr. Sarah Adams

For more than 45 years, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been cruising through the cosmos, crossing the boundary of our solar system ...

NASA radar images show stadium-sized asteroid tumbling by Earth during flyby (photos)

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Dr. Sarah Adams

A stadium-sized asteroid tumbled harmlessly past Earth this month as a powerful NASA radar system watched. Asteroid 2008 OS7 passed by Earth ...

Solar eclipse on Mars! Perseverance rover sees Martian moon Phobos cross the sun in epic video

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Fear passed in front of the sun last week, and a NASA rover saw it fly. The Mars moon Phobos, whose name ...

Huge stadium-sized asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth for centuries today (Feb. 2)

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Dr. Sarah Adams

A “potentially hazardous” football stadium-size asteroid will zip safely past Earth on Friday (Feb. 2), and, in doing so, will reach its ...

Watch NASA celebrate (and mourn) its Mars helicopter Ingenuity in this free livestream

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Dr. Sarah Adams

With NASA’s pioneering Mars helicopter Ingenuity grounded forever after a hard landing, the time has come to mourn the first flying machine ...

Mars Perseverance rover loses its trusty scout

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Dr. Sarah Adams

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