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James Webb Space Telescope Launched on Daring Quest To Behold First Stars

The $10-billion observatory hurtled toward its destination 1.6 million...

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After NASA Refuses To Rename James Webb Telescope, Advisor Quits in Protest

Amrit B.L.S. 22/10/2021

Scientists are unhappy that a telescope that may usher...

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Overture to Exoplanets: What Can We Expect From the James Webb Space Telescope?

Kimberly M.S. Cartier 02/08/2021

The observatory is scheduled to launch by the end...

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Did You Know Some Planets Are Hotter Than Stars?

Quentin Changeat and Billy Edwards 14/03/2021

Kelt-9 b is hotter than 80% of all the...

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The Year of the Satellite Megaconstellation

Swapna Krishna 06/01/2020

2019 has seen a new kind of space race:...

Guests congratulate New Horizons team members after they received signals from the New Horizons spacecraft that it is healthy and it collected data during the fly of Ultima Thule, at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, U.S., January 1, 2019. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls/Handout via REUTERS.

NASA Space Probe ‘Phones Home’ in Landmark Mission to Solar System’s Edge

Joey Roulette 02/01/2019

Launched in January 2006, NASA's New Horizons explorer embarked...

FILE PHOTO: An artist's impression of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, currently en route to Pluto, is shown in this handout image provided by NASA/JHUAPL. Credit: REUTERS/NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Handout

NASA Probe Believed to Have Passed Distant Space Rock on Landmark Mission

Joey Roulette 01/01/2019

The body is farther from Earth than any other...