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Earth Gets A Close-Up View Of Its Most Distant Neighbors

11:25am July 14, 2015

Early Tuesday morning, NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft will complete the first-ever flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto. NPR's Geoff Brumfiel reports live from the New Horizons Control center.

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The last image of Pluto taken by New Horizons.

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Pluto Mission Gets A Poetic Tribute

10:48am July 14, 2015

by Adam Cole

Skunk Bear's latest video celebrates the hundreds of pictures taken by the New Horizons space probe over the past decade.

NASA's New Horizons mission will be the first ever to visit Pluto and its moons. This artist's conception shows the probe as it passes the dwarf planet.

Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Nears Its Quarry

3:27pm July 07, 2015

by Geoff Brumfiel

After nearly a decade of traveling through space, NASA's New Horizons probe is about to arrive at Pluto. On Tuesday it will begin an intensive, weeklong study of the distant world.

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On Friday, a Russian Soyuz rocket will send an unmanned cargo ship with more than 3 tons of food, water and fuel for astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Russian Rocket Poised For Crucial Supply Run To Space Station

2:41pm July 06, 2015

by Geoff Brumfiel

After a string of launch failures, NASA says astronauts have just four months of supplies left. A Russian rocket launching early Friday could provide relief.

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An image of Europa released by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., in 1996 by the Galileo spacecraft. NASA says a new probe dedicated to studying the Jovian moon, is going into the development phase.

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NASA: Europa Spacecraft Goes Into Development Phase

8:21pm June 18, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The probe would make dozens of flybys of the Jovian moon in an effort to study its vast subterranean ocean that could harbor life.

A Nov. 14, 1969, photo made available by NASA shows Jack King in the Firing Room of the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Control Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., during the countdown for Apollo 12. King, who died Thursday, became known as NASA's

Jack King, NASA's 'Voice Of Apollo,' Dies At 84

1:17pm June 12, 2015

by Scott Neuman

He uttered the countdown heard 'round the world leading up to the launch of the first moon landing mission.

European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy checks her Sokol pressure suit aboard the International Space Station. Cristoforetti, who set an endurance record, is among three astronauts who returned on Thursday.

Trio Of Astronauts Return To Earth After Record-Breaking ISS Mission

11:45am June 11, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti surpassed a space endurance record for a female spacefarer.

An image from NASA shows its Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator after launch Monday.

NASA's 'Flying Saucer' Test For Advanced Parachute Appears To Fail

7:35am June 09, 2015

by Bill Chappell

A giant balloon carried the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator to an altitude of 120,000 feet to test the device, which could be used on Mars missions. It seemed to deploy correctly, then tear apart.

Computer modeling illustrations of Pluto's moon Nix demonstrate that its orientation changes unpredictably as it orbits the "double planet" of Pluto and Charon.

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Pluto's Moons Are 'Tumbling In Absolute Chaos,' NASA Says

9:19am June 04, 2015

by Bill Chappell

In the NFL, something that behaves like Pluto's football-shaped moons might be called a wobbly duck. NASA calls them astonishing.

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New NASA Space Engine Defies Physics

2:22pm May 15, 2015

by Shawn Fitzmaurice

SciWorks Radio is a production of 88.5 WFDD and SciWorks, the Science Center and Environmental Park of Forsyth County, located in Winston-Salem.

The internet buzzed recently with news that NASA is developing a Star Trek-like warp drive engine. That sounded neat, so I checked it out. It turns out we are not ready to fold space, but we may be a hair closer -- by developing new kinds of propulsion systems. To learn more,

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