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NASA estimates the pandemic ballooned costs by $3 billion — here are the projects to take the biggest hit
As the coronavirus pandemic spread across the globe in 2020, many organisations were forced to shut…
Prabhjote Gill
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NASA's first full-color image from the James Webb Space Telescope peers further back in time than any prior infrared lens, revealing 13 billion years of galaxies
The James Webb Space Telescope captured galaxies from more than 13 billion years ago in stunning in…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Paola R…
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Watch live as Biden reveals the first full-color image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
NASA's new space telescope is 100 times more powerful than Hubble, with the ability to peer further…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA launches its long-awaited $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, kicking off a cosmic revolution
NASA's biggest space telescope has faced about a decade of delays and budget cuts. It finally screa…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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'This is not good': The Arecibo telescope just suffered even more damage that will set back searches for asteroids and aliens
In August, a cable at the Arecibo Observatory snapped, tearing a hole in the reflector dish. On Fri…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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7 Easter eggs in the images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are totally new to astronomy
An astronomer points out hidden sights in NASA's new images, from previously invisible star cluster…
Marianne Guenot,Morgan McFall…
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Side-by-side images from the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes show why NASA spent 25 years and $10 billion
NASA's new space observatory can capture details nobody has ever seen: countless galaxies, clouds o…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Stunning images from retired space telescopes show how galaxies are defined by the dust between stars
Researchers used data from retired missions to map the distribution of cold clouds of dust in four …
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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The James Webb Space Telescope is astronomy's shiny new toy, but the Hubble Space Telescope isn't old news — it's at its scientific peak
Because Webb looks at the universe in infrared, it will miss celestial objects in the visible and u…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Astronomers discover whirling electric winds at Saturn's north pole, solving a decades-old NASA mystery
Saturn's aurora borealis, unlike auroras on other planets, is driven by a powerful weather system. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Unknown objects at the heart of the Milky Way are beaming radio signals, then mysteriously disappearing
Radio waves bursting from the center of the Milky Way, then disappearing, might reveal a new type o…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch NASA launch its $10 billion, game-changing James Webb Space Telescope on Christmas morning
Webb could revolutionize astronomy by spotting the universe's first galaxies. But the telescope has…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope has to unfold itself in space — a nail-biting maneuver NASA's never attempted
Launching NASA's most valuable observatory is stressful enough, but Webb must also unfold itself in…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers are urging NASA to build a huge space telescope to see Earth-like worlds outside our solar system
NASA is just about to launch a groundbreaking space telescope. But a once-a-decade report asks the …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Hubble Space Telescope has been offline for more than a week, and NASA isn't sure why
NASA's iconic Earth-orbiting observatory is getting old. After Hubble's last glitch over the summer…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Mysterious radio waves are radiating from an unknown object at the heart of the Milky Way, astronomers say
The signal appeared near the center of the galaxy. It was strong for most of 2020, but then it sudd…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers spotted a distant planet in the middle of making its own moon
The disc surrounding this planet has enough dust and gas to form three moons the size of our own. T…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX broke a record by launching 180 satellites in 1 month — accelerating Elon Musk's project to blanket Earth in high-speed internet
SpaceX's newest satellites sport sun visors — an effort to reduce their brightness in the night sky…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX just launched 57 new Starlink satellites with sun visors to make them less bright. A scientist says that won't stop them from interfering with astronomy.
The skies could soon be crawling with tens of thousands of false stars. Making those satellites dim…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's launch of the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope has been delayed 7 months to Halloween 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope, a semi-truck-size infrared observatory, has a new planned launch da…