The Hubble Space Telescope launched on the 24th of April, 32 years ago. It’s an impressive milestone especially as its expected lifespan was just 10 years. One of the primary reasons for the Hubble telescope’s longevity is that it can be serviced and improved with new observational instruments through regular space visits. When Hubble, or […]
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has reached its destination, 1.5 million km from Earth. Here’s what happens next
All of Webb’s major spacecraft deployments, including the unfurling of the primary mirror and sunshield, were completed on January 8.
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The James Webb Space Telescope will map the atmosphere of exoplanets
Exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the sun, are found at distances very far from Earth. For example, the closest exoplanet to us, Proxima Centauri b, is 4.2 light years away, or 265,000 times the distance between the Earth and the sun. To the naked eye, the planets in the solar system appear as bright […]
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Space station remains at high risk from debris from Russian weapons test
NASA and the State Department have condemned the missile strike, saying it also puts satellites and China’s space station at risk.
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Cosmic gulp: Astronomers see black hole swallow neutron star
The collision was more than one billion light-years away.
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NASA releases Mars landing video: ‘Stuff of our dreams’
The Perseverance rover will spend the next two years exploring the dry river delta and drilling into rocks that may hold evidence of life.
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Two black holes merged into a size astronomers have never before seen
The first ever discovered intermediate black hole, which is 142 times the mass of the sun, formed in a violent collision about 7 billion years ago.
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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon launches first manned test flight to space station
The flight ends a nine-year launch drought for NASA, which retired the space shuttle in 2011.
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U.S. astronaut sets record for longest spaceflight by a woman
Christina Koch, who arrived at the space station on March 14, broke the old mark of 288 set by former commander Peggy Whitson.
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Year in space put US astronaut’s disease defenses on alert
Scientists find that astronaut who spent nearly a year in space had his immune system go on high alert.