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Japan Loses Contact With Humanity’s Only Active Venus Probe ‘Akatsuki’

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Akatsuki was launched on May 21, 2010. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has confirmed that it lost contact with the spacecraft Akatsuki, ...

Bus-sized asteroid heading towards Earth at a speed of 14,400 kmph NASA warns

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has reported that a bus-sized asteroid, designated as 2024 JP1, is on a trajectory that brings it towards ...

Don’t Miss the “Planetary Parade” – Witness Six Planets Align in a Rare Display

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Stargazers can witness a rare alignment of six planets on June 3, best viewed before sunrise from dark, elevated locations. (Artist’s illustration ...

NASA gives status update on mission to capture asteroid worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Updated 18:46 31 May 2024 GMT+1Published 16:45 31 May 2024 GMT+1 The asteroid is thought to contain precious metals, including gold, iron ...

NASA’s James Webb telescope finds the most distant galaxy in the universe that existed just 300 million years after the Big Bang

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

NASA’s James Webb telescope has found the most distant galaxy in the universe – giving an astonishing glimpse into the distant cosmic ...

Hope quickly fades for Earth’s only Venus mission as controllers give devastating update on lonely 14-year-old satellite

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

HOPE is quickly fading for Earth’s last-remaining Venus mission, after controllers lost contact with the Japanese spacecraft after 14 years. JAXA, Japan’s space ...

A ‘parade of planets’ will appear in the night sky TOMORROW – here’s how you can see the six distant worlds align

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Just before dawn from May 31 to June 3, a parade of six planets from our solar system will come into alignment ...

NASA’s Asteroid Samples Upend Our Understanding Of Early Solar System

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

DUGWAY, UTAH – SEPTEMBER 24: In this handout provided by NASA, from left to right, NASA … [+] Astromaterials Curator Francis McCubbin, ...

NASA unveils gorgeous spiral galaxy named after an Egyptian queen; netizens awestruck

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has unveiled a breathtaking image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4689, captured by the Hubble ...

NASA spots movement beneath the icy crust of Europa

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

It’s been revealed that Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, Europa, has been hiding something beneath its icy crust after NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured an ...