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After a long, cold journey, NASA’s New Horizons probe has Pluto in its sights

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Talk about a long, strange trip. A NASA spacecraft called New Horizons has traveled 3 billion miles through space over the last nine years and now is approaching Pluto. Aboard: Ashes of the astronomer who discovered the distant orb in 1930.

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The discovery of a new ‘dwarf planet’ expands our view of the solar system

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The discovery of a new ‘dwarf planet’ expands our view of the solar system

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New Study Says Plants on Distant Planets May Be Black

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The Pluto Files

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NASA telescope looks at gamma-ray mysteries, A

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We talk with Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium and host of Nova ScienceNOW about space news this week.

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