TheJames Webb Space Telescopehas been in space for nearly 10 months and, despite a micrometeroid issue and a glitch, the telescope's performance is surpassing expectations, mission officials said in anew updatetoday (Oct. 20). That's good news for astronomers given the impressive observations c...
Mission team members have begun the three-month process of aligning the $10 billion Webb, which launched on Dec. 25, NASA officials announced today (Feb. 3).
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“The spacecraft, Atlas V rocket and all range equipment are ready,” said NASA launch director Tim Dunn at today’s pre-launch news conference at the Kennedy Space Center. “And the combined government and contractor launch team is prepared to launch TDRS-M — a critical national space asse...
"We are all part of something incredibly special, the first launch of Artemis. The first step in returning our country to the moon and on to Mars. What you have done today will inspire generations to come. So thank you, thank you for your resilience... The harder the climb, the better...
Want more science and tech news delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for Mashable's Top Stories newsletter today. The LIFE habitat is made out of a woven fabric called Vectran, which engineers say is five times stronger than steel and has protective layers against space radiation. Other ...
NASA says this discovery holds promise for opening up an uncharted era of very early star formation. "Earendel existed so long ago that it may not have had all the same raw materials as the stars around us today," Welch explained. "Studying Earendel will be a window into an era of the...
Recently, NASA set a formation flying space record with its Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS).Space.cominitially reported on the record-breaking space flight in which the four MMS spacecraft were able to fly in formation only 4.5 miles apart from one another, breaking the previous record ...
"Our launch team was really, I'll say, pushed today," said Jim Free, NASA's associate administrator for exploration systems development at a post-scrub news briefing. "They were working on a lot of issues." She waived off another attempt five days later on Sept. 3 after engineers ...
NASA’s Mars drone captures cool shots of rover landing gear Check out this cool NASA image of SpaceX Crew-3’s ride home Watch NASA’s Crew-3 astronauts share highlights of their ISS mission How to watch NASA’s first space tourism launch to the ISS today...