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A stunning image of the young stars of westerlund 1 as seen by the JWST

James Webb Space Telescope explores monster star supercluster Westerlund 1 (image)

By Robert Lea published

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken a detailed look at the Milky Way's monstrous young supercluster Westerlund 1.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in its deployed form as seen in an artist's illustration.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission — Live updates

By Robert Lea last updated

Read the latest news about NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

James Webb Space Telescope
a silver space telescope with gold mirror floats in sapce.

2 space telescope designs will battle it out to become NASA's next cosmic imager

By Keith Cooper published

Whichever mission NASA selects to image the cosmos next should launch by 2032. Here are the two contenders.

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three men and one woman wave from inside the international space station

Happy Thanksgiving from space! What Turkey Day dinner looks like for NASA astronauts on ISS (video)

By Mike Wall published

The four NASA astronauts currently living on the International Space Station wished us all a happy Thanksgiving — and revealed what they'll be feasting on this Turkey Day.

International Space Station
the black silhouette of a double solar-paneled space probe, with a pair of opposing straight thin antenna extending from either panel arm, is beset before the trippy blue and pink trenches and scars of an icy moon below.

NASA's Europa Clipper probe deploys 1st science instruments en route to Jupiter

By Samantha Mathewson published

NASA's Europa Clipper mission has successfully deployed its magnetometer's boom and several antennas for its radar instrument as it continues on its journey toward Jupiter's ice-covered moon.

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Astronaut catches Dextre space robot 'busting a move' outside ISS — for science (video)

By Elizabeth Howell published

NASA astronaut Don Pettit took a 10-hour timelapse of Dextre, a handy Canadian robot, working with a science experiment on the ISS.

International Space Station

Sojourner: The first successful Mars rover

By Elizabeth Howell last updated

Mars Pathfinder carried the first rover to Mars, using an innovative airbag landing system to bounce safely onto the surface.

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view of the international space station through the window of a departing spacecraft

International Space Station dodges 2nd piece of space junk in 6 days

By Mike Wall published

A Russian Progress freighter docked to the ISS fired its thrusters Monday (Nov. 25) to dodge a piece of debris, the second such evasive maneuver for the orbiting lab in less than a week.

International Space Station
a metallic cylinder with two wing-like solar panels

ISS astronauts open hatch to Russian spacecraft after strange smell delays cargo delivery

By Elizabeth Howell published

Cargo is finally being unloaded from a docked Russian Progress spacecraft at the ISS. A delay occurred after astronauts reported an unexpected smell on Nov. 23.

International Space Station
illustration of a silvery metallic rotorcraft flying over orangish dunes

NASA's nuclear-powered Dragonfly helicopter will ride a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket toward Saturn moon Titan

By Mike Wall published

NASA has picked SpaceX to launch its Dragonfly astrobiology mission to the intriguing Saturn moon Titan. A Falcon Heavy will loft Dragonfly in July 2028.

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