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Here's everything to know about the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it captured on its three-year anniversary observing ...
On July 11, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope finished its commissioning and commenced science operations. In the three ...
When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...
The Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from ...
Explore the detailed process of getting the Space Shuttle into orbit around the Earth, primarily conducted at Kennedy Space ...
Dan Weedman was a senior official at NASA and the National Science Foundation from 1992-2002, including serving as the head ...
Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.
Kluger, who has written about the Apollo Program, talks about his new book: 'Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, The Untold ...
Both cameras are far more sensitive than the standard cameras used on Earth. NIRCam and MIRI can detect the tiniest amounts ...
In the vast expanse between Uranus and Neptune, a team of researchers have uncovered something really quite extraordinary, a ...
Greetings, stargazers. Emission nebulae are the subject of many of the most spectacular astrophotographs published in the last decade. Although there are many subcategories of nebulae, they all ...
The object is big – possibly as wide 12 miles, larger than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs – and is speeding ...