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Tag: Space and Astronomy

This Mars Documentary Required Many Sols

“‘Wall-E’ came up because it was such an endearing film about this little rover that’s trying to do stuff, so we kept that in...

James Webb Telescope Arrives at Destination in Space: Updates and Video

After traveling nearly one million miles, the James Webb Space Telescope arrived at its new home on Monday. The spacecraft’s arrival checks off another...

What We Know About Unfolding the James Webb Space Telescope

The most powerful telescope ever launched into space has reached the end of a meticulous assembly process that has kept astronomers on edge for...

What’s Launching to the Moon in 2022

Robotic missions to Mars and advances in space tourism dominated the space activities of 2021. But in 2022, the moon is likely to stand...

NASA-Russia Alliance Is Shaken by Events on Planet Earth

When Russia’s military blasted an old satellite to smithereens last month with an antisatellite missile, American officials reacted angrily, warning that thousands of tiny...

How NASA’s Webb Telescope Overcame Loose Screws, Budgets and Clamps

NASA’s next flagship observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, is gearing up for its launch to space on Saturday morning — finally. The Webb...

James Webb Space Telescope Launch Is Making Astronomers Very Anxious

What do astronomers eat for breakfast on the day that their $10 billion telescope launches into space? Their fingernails.“You work for years and it...

Jeff Bezos Is Getting Astronaut Wings. But Soon, the F.A.A. Won’t Award Them.

Jeff Bezos is officially an astronaut. Really — just ask the federal government.The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday that it was ending a...

Thursday and Friday’s Partial Lunar Eclipse Was the Longest in 580 Years

When the moon shines in night skies on Thursday into the early hours of Friday morning, you will get a chance to witness a...

Russian Anti-Satellite Weapon Test Debris Forces Astronauts to Shelter

Russia carried out an antisatellite missile test on Monday, obliterating one of its own satellites in orbit. The test created a vast cloud of...

NASA Moves Moon Landing Deadline Back to 2025

NASA is pushing back its deadline for returning American astronauts to the moon’s surface by as much as one year, officials announced on Tuesday....

Star System With Right-Angled Planets Surprises Astronomers

Star systems come in all shapes and sizes. Some have lots of planets, some have larger planets and others have no planets at all....

A Future for People With Disabilities in Outer Space Takes Flight

Eric Ingram typically moves through the world on his wheelchair. The 31-year-old chief executive of SCOUT Inc., a smart satellite components company, was born...

A Nobel Prize for Stephen Hawking That Might Have Been

Did death cheat Stephen Hawking of a Nobel Prize?When the iconic physicist died on March 14, 2018, data was already in hand that could...

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