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Guests congratulate New Horizons team members after they received signals from the New Horizons spacecraft that it is healthy and it collected data during the fly of Ultima Thule, at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, U.S., January 1, 2019. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls/Handout via REUTERS.

NASA Space Probe ‘Phones Home’ in Landmark Mission to Solar System’s Edge

Joey Roulette 02/01/2019

Launched in January 2006, NASA's New Horizons explorer embarked...

FILE PHOTO: An artist's impression of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, currently en route to Pluto, is shown in this handout image provided by NASA/JHUAPL. Credit: REUTERS/NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Handout

NASA Probe Believed to Have Passed Distant Space Rock on Landmark Mission

Joey Roulette 01/01/2019

The body is farther from Earth than any other...

NASA Deep Space Probe Reaches Asteroid Deemed Potential Earth Threat

Reuters 04/12/2018

A 'touch-and-go' manoeuvre of OSIRIS-REx is planned to snatch...

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NASA’s Voyager 2 Probe Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space

Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is a little less...

A H-IIA rocket carrying Hayabusa 2 space probe blasts off from the launching pad at Tanegashima Space Center on the Japanese southwestern island of Tanegashima, in this photo taken by Kyodo December 3, 2014. Credit: Kyodo via Reuters/File Photo

Japanese Probe Arrives at Asteroid Ryugu After 3.5-Year Journey

Elaine Lies 27/06/2018

Hayabusa 2, named for the peregrine falcon, will spend...