Far out: NASA space telescope’s 1st cosmic view goes deep

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Published
July 11, 2022

Far out: NASA space telescope’s 1st cosmic view goes deep

The James Webb Space Telescope provides images of the farthest humanity has ever seen in both time and distance, closer to the dawn of time and the edge of the universe.
Published
June 20, 2022

NASA fuels moon rocket for 1st time in countdown rehearsal

This was NASA’s fourth crack at the all-important dress rehearsal, the last major milestone before the moon rocket’s long-awaited launch debut.
Published
May 19, 2022

Boeing crew capsule launches to space station on test redo

Boeing's crew capsule has blasted off on a repeat test flight to the International Space Station.
Published
April 14, 2022

Fuel leak thwarts NASA’s dress rehearsal for moon rocket

NASA's latest attempt to fuel its huge moon rocket for a countdown test has been thwarted by a hazardous hydrogen leak.
Published
March 30, 2022

Twinkle, twinkle: Astronomers discover farthest star yet

It's a super-hot, super-bright giant that formed nearly 13 billion years ago at the dawn of the cosmos.
Published
March 30, 2022

U.S. astronaut ends record-long spaceflight in Russian capsule

Mark Vande Hei landed in a Soyuz capsule in Kazakhstan alongside the Russian Space Agency’s Pyotr Dubrov, who also spent the past year in space, and Anton Shkaplerov.
Published
March 16, 2022

Space telescope’s image of star gets photobombed by galaxies

NASA’s new space telescope is showing perfect vision, with a spiky image of a faraway star that was photobombed by thousands of ancient galaxies.
Published
February 11, 2022

NASA’s new space telescope sees 1st starlight, takes selfie

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first starlight and even taken a selfie of its giant, gold mirror.
Published
January 24, 2022

NASA’s new space telescope reaches its final stop – a million miles out

The telescope will enable astronomers to peer back further in time than ever before, all the way back to when the first stars and galaxies were forming 13.7 billion years ago.
Published
January 4, 2022

NASA nails trickiest job on newly launched James Webb space telescope

NASA has aced the most complicated, critical job on its newly launched space telescope: unrolling and stretching a sunshade the size of a tennis court.