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The Russian cargo ship launched on April 28, went haywire and crashed into the Pacific just a few hours ago

The controversial photo was taken on December 19, 1960, by NASA's unmanned Mercury-Redstone 1A spacecraft

Earlier this month, NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained the highest-resolution images of Ceres' north pole to date

While exploring the Sun's upper atmosphere, the space probe will face temperatures as high as 2,500°F (nearly 1,400°C)

Images produced by NASA's Dawn spacecraft show the spots rise above the dwarf planet's surface, are brighter at dawn

The images were obtained by the MESSENGER probe when hovering just 15 kilometers (9 miles) above the surface of Mercury

The water appears to be frozen in a massive block resting on the neck connecting the comet's two lobes

Earlier today, at 4:39 a.m. PST (7:39 a.m. EST), the spacecraft was captured by the dwarf planet's gravity

The spacecraft left Earth in September 2007, is expected to place itself in Ceres' orbit late Thursday night

Between February 10 and 18, the probe moved stunningly close to Mars and studied the lower end of its upper atmosphere

NASA astronomers release new space images showing dwarf planet Ceres as pictured by the agency's Dawn probe

The images were obtained by the Rosetta spacecraft this past Saturday, show the comet's surface in unprecedented detail

On February 14, 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully imaged the Solar System from far, far away

The mysterious white spots visible on the surface of Ceres could be impact craters, astronomers explain

On February 14, the Rosetta spacecraft will come within just 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) of its target comet's surface

Philae made it on the surface of its target comet on November 12, 2014, ran out of battery shortly after landing

The images were obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, show an odd bright spot lurking on the surface of the planet