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I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a ...

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After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

Located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, the world's most powerful digital camera is set to transform how we see the universe.

The telescope peered into a single “toe bean” of the nebula, uncovering clusters of gas, dust and young stars.