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    Remote observations have suggested that Ultima Thule has a lumpy shape, or could even be two bodies in orbit around each other. Image Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Steve Gribben
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    Interview: Ramy El-Maarry, New Horizons scientist

    An artist's illustration of New Horizons at Pluto. Credit: Image Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
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    What did New Horizons discover at Pluto?

    Voyager 2 has passed through the heliopause, into interstellar space. The bubble of particles and magnetism surrounding the Sun known as the heliosphere is stretched out behind the Sun as it moves through the Galaxy. Image Credit: NASA
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    Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space

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    Interview: exoplanet-hunting with Kepler

    An artist’s illustration of the InSight lander on Mars. The mission is designed to look for tectonic activity study how much heat is flowing through the planet. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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    NASA’s InSight to study Mars interior

    Artist's impression of the Kepler space telescope Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Wendy Stenzel
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    How the Kepler space telescope came to be

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    Interview Former NASA scientist David Baker

    An artist's impression of the Kepler space telescope, an observatory that taught us for every star we see in the night sky, there is on average one planet orbiting it. Image Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/W. Stenzel/D. Rutter
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    NASA retires Kepler space telescope

    Artist's impression of the Dawn spacecraft studying Vesta and Ceres. Credit: NASA
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    NASA’s Dawn mission comes to an end

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    Waving for the camera on my third and final space walk. I enjoyed the challenge, but I was happy to have them done.
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    In pictures: astronaut Scott Kelly’s year in space

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    Interview Former NASA historian on the history of space exploration

    Director Rory Kennedy during one of the many expert interviews carried out for Above And Beyond, a new documentary looking at the history of NASA since the Apollo missions. Image Credit: Discovery Channel
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    Interview Filmmaker Rory Kennedy discusses her uncle's Moon landing legacy

    An artist’s impression of BepiColombo approaching Mercury. Image Credit: ESA/ATG medialab; Mercury: NASA/JPL
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    Bepi Colombo: Mission to Mercury

    The diversity of Pluto’s surface is visible in this shot, showing the various surfaces and landforms on the dwarf planet. This 350km wide image shows cratered terrain, mountains and a field of dark ridges that look like dunes.
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    New Horizons reveals latest Pluto images

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