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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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The two halves of Hubble’s $10 billion successor have finally come together after 12 years of waiting
The two halves of the next-generation space telescope have come together for the first time ev…
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Space science missions to look forward to in 2022
There’s always something big to look forward to in space and 2022 has some major launches planne…
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Space 2021: All the Mars landings, eclipses, astronaut flights, rocket launches, and other big missions to look for this year
In 2021, we'll see nine meteor showers. Boeing and SpaceX should launch humans into orbit, and NASA…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Susie N…
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Scientists built a 3-ton camera with a 5-foot-wide lens to discover hazardous asteroids that NASA can't see
A Menlo Park, California, lab built this camera to learn about dark energy and dark matter, flag ha…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Kids aren't usually invited to this NASA operation center, but a 9-year-old child prodigy had scientists 'buzzing with excitement' during a private tour
David, who lives with his family in Pennsylvania, graduated high school and began hunting for colle…
Katie Balevic
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NASA says UFOs are probably balloons, planes, or solar glints — but not aliens
NASA said it can't explain UAP, but they're not aliens. The agency says these sightings, known popu…
Maiya Focht,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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This 10-year-old prodigy is the youngest college student in his school's history
After a thorough college search, David Balogun is pursuing his bachelor's degree in computer scienc…
Katie Balevic
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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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Ex-Google employee says the 'once-great company has slowly ceased to function' because of 4 core cultural problems
Google has "no mission, no urgency, delusions of exceptionalism," and suffers from mismanagement, t…
Sindhu Sundar
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The asteroid NASA crashed into looks like a comet now, with a forked tail, Hubble image reveals
NASA is watching the asteroid Dimorphos closely since the DART spacecraft slammed into it. The come…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A Harvard professor is risking his reputation to search for aliens. Tech tycoons are bankrolling his quest.
Avi Loeb thinks the public has a right to know the truth about UFOs. He hopes his controversial ide…
Marianne Guenot
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Europe's space agency is turning to Elon Musk's SpaceX after anti-Russian sanctions left it scrambling for rockets
SpaceX has been hired to launch two rockets for the European Space Agency, after the Ukraine confli…
Pete Syme
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Elon Musk's Starlink satellites are ruining images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, threatening future science
Hubble has sunk to an orbit among the satellites, including SpaceX's growing Starlink constellation…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA crashes DART spacecraft into an asteroid, testing a tactic to bump space rocks away from Earth
NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid to knock it off its path. It's the first te…
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Marianne Gu…
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Hubble telescope once again enters safe mode, science operations shut
Science operations have been once again shut on the iconic Hubble telescope as the ageing observato…
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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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Space debris continued to be a big problem in 2021 and it’s only going to get worse
This isn’t the only incident of the year though as there have been quite a few instances of spac…
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The hardest part of discovering alien life may be announcing it. Here's how NASA might break the news.
Mystery flying objects, UFOs or "UAPs," probably aren't aliens. But if extraterrestrial life is rea…