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NASA awards SpaceX a $255 million contract to launch the next space telescope, which will study dark energy and exoplanets
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket to observe dar…
Kate Duffy
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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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NASA successfully completes unfolding of James Webb space telescope, which has been hailed as a groundbreaking achievement
The US space agency fully deployed its James Webb Telescope, including a gold-plated hexagonal mirr…
Zahra Tayeb
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NASA's powerful Hubble space telescope has beamed back a striking photo of a 'fluffy' galaxy with a ghostly, empty center
The photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows how newborn stars have used up all the gas at th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA is developing plans to build an enormous, Arecibo-like telescope inside a crater on the moon
NASA researchers are plotting out how robots could build a radio telescope inside a moon crater. It…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A broken clamp rattled NASA's new $10 billion space telescope, risking damage just weeks before launch
NASA pushed back the James Webb Space Telescope's December launch by four days after a clamp broke …
Francis Agustin,Morgan McFall…
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The Arecibo telescope's 900-ton platform has crashed into its disk below and destroyed the iconic radio observatory
One of Earth's key radio telescopes fell in on itself, dealing a major blow to astronomers' searche…
Aylin Woodward,Dave Mosher,Mo…
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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…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mo…
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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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NASA may attempt a 'risky' maneuver to fix its broken Hubble Space Telescope this week
Engineers have been troubleshooting NASA's Hubble Telescope since it went offline in mid-June. Now,…
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-…
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Even the Hubble Space Telescope's backup computer is glitching now - raising new questions about what's gone wrong
Hubble has been offline for 12 days. NASA's Hubble team is starting to think this may not be an err…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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India’s places its first robotic telescope in one of the world’s highest astronomical observatories
But, essentially, the telescope has the potential to capture any event that has an electroma…
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NASA is finally advancing a space telescope that could track down dangerous asteroids before they strike Earth
Potentially hazardous asteroids often skim past Earth without warning. A space telescope that looks…
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…