OpinionJuly 11, 2022
Webb’s Record-Breaking First Image Shows Why We Build Telescopes
A new galaxy-packed picture from the James Webb Space Telescope offers a chance to rekindle our wonder about the universe
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AstronomyJuly 11, 2022
Meet the Woman Who Makes the James Webb Space Telescope Work
Jane Rigby, Webb’s operations project scientist, discusses how NASA plans to wring as much science as possible from the $10-billion observatory
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Space ExplorationJune 28, 2022
NASA’s Tiny CAPSTONE CubeSat Launches on Pioneering Moon Mission
The spacecraft will arrive in lunar orbit in mid-November to help prepare for a future moon-orbiting outpost
Planetary ScienceJune 23, 2022
Controversy Grows Over whether Mars Samples Endanger Earth
Planetary scientists are eager to bring Red Planet rocks, soil and even air to Earth, but critics fear the risk of contaminating our world’s biosphere
Space ExplorationJune 22, 2022
New Maps of Milky Way Are Biggest and Best Yet
The latest data release from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission is sparking a frenzy of exciting new astrophysics research
AstronomyJune 9, 2022
Webb Telescope’s Giant Mirror Struck by Micrometeoroid
The impact has slightly degraded one of the observatory’s mirror segments, but NASA says the telescope has sustained no significant damage
Space ExplorationJune 7, 2022
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Begins Key Search for Life on Mars
Rolling up an ancient river delta in Jezero Crater, the rover starts crucial rock sampling.
Space ExplorationJune 2, 2022
‘Unsustainable’: How Satellite Swarms Pose a Rising Threat to Astronomy
SpaceX and other companies are still struggling to make their satellites darker in the night sky
Extraterrestrial LifeJune 2, 2022
Scientists Sprout First-Ever Seedlings in Apollo Moon Dirt
We now know that plants survive but fail to thrive in lunar soil
Space ExplorationMay 24, 2022
Largest Marsquake Ever Recorded May Be InSight’s Swan Song
NASA’s three-and-a-half-year mission to collect seismic data from Mars is running out of juice
Space ExplorationMay 20, 2022
NASA Hails Starliner Launch Success despite Thruster Glitch
The Starliner team is confident the malfunctions won’t prevent the spacecraft from completing its mission
Space ExplorationMay 19, 2022
Will NASA Save Europe’s Beleaguered Mars Rover?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ended hopes of launching the ExoMars rover in 2022. Now the mission may never lift off at all