NASA’s Deep Space Network Finds Silent Lunar Satellite
The three massive communication facilities spread across the globe aren’t just used for talking with distant spacecraft. They can also be used to find them. Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion…
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The “Space Peanut” Asteroid and the Two Telescopes Behind The Images
On July 25, our planet had a close (relatively) encounter with a weird looking asteroid. The asteroid, 1999 JD6, is believed to be a contact binary – a type of…
New Horizons Begins Its Epic Data Transfer with the Deep Space Network
Those breathtaking images from July’s New Horizons flyby of Pluto? That’s nothing. On Saturday, New Horizons began the second most important part of its mission. Downlinking tens of gigabits worth…
The Stunning Halo Craters of Pluto Have a Mystery
During NASA’s New Horizons’ closest approach, it spotted a cluster of craters at the far western reaches of its view. The science team has dubbed them ‘haloed’ craters because of…