On This Day in Space: Jan. 29, 1989: Phobos 2 enters orbit around Mars
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On January 29, 1989, a Soviet space probe named Phobos 2 arrived in orbit around Mars. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series!...
- By: Hanneke Weitering
- On: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:31 +0000
Jupiter and Saturn may leave marks on the sun's corpse
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The outer layers of superdense stellar remnants known as white dwarfs may often possess the remains of giant planets, a new study suggests....
- By: Charles Q. Choi
- On: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:00 +0000
NASA scientist gets new Earth-observation satellite named after him, a rare honor
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An Earth-observation satellite scheduled to launch this fall was just named after Michael Freilich, who headed NASA's Earth Science division from 2006 to 2019. ...
- By: Mike Wall
- On: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 11:30 +0000
NASA spacecraft breaks its own record with another swing by the sun
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe took one step closer to the sun Wednesday (Jan. 29) when it executed its fourth flyby of our star....
- By: Meghan Bartels
- On: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 11:00 +0000
Potential collision of old NASA space telescope and a defunct US satellite would spawn new debris swarm
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Let's hope that today's space-junk encounter is just a near miss as predicted, because a smashup would be pretty messy....
- By: Mike Wall
- On: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 10:25 +0000
SpaceX is launching 60 more Starlink satellites today. Here's how to watch live.
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The private spaceflight company SpaceX will launch 60 new Starlink satellites to join its growing broadband internet megaconstellation in orbit Wednesday (Jan. 29), and you can watch it live online....
- By: Amy Thompson
- On: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 10:15 +0000