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SpaceX Dragon cargo ship delivers Christmas presents (and supplies) to space station

The autonomous Dragon resupply ship docked itself at the orbital outpost at 3:41 a.m. EST (0841 GMT), ahead of its planned 4:30 a.m. docking time. It parked itself at the space-facing port on the station's Harmony module, with NASA astronauts Raja Chari ...

Experiments, holiday gifts delivered by SpaceX to International Space Station

A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule pulled into port at the International Space Station Wednesday, a day after launch from Florida's Space Coast with 3.2 tons of experiments, holiday gifts, and external instruments developed by NASA and the U.S. military to help ...

Science and music collide with the James Webb Space Telescope

The perfectly punnily-named band, led by Lee Feinberg, a keyboardist who also happens to be the Optical Telescope Element manager for Webb at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, is made up of Webb scientists and other NASA team members.

Solar storm may amp up northern lights before Christmas

A solar storm that erupted from the sun on Monday (Dec. 20) may boost northern lights displays around the north pole just ahead of Santa's trip this weekend, the U.K. Met Office space weather forecasting center said today (Dec. 22).

Astronomers find record-breaking haul of starless 'rogue' planets

Astronomers have discovered dozens of new "rogue" planets, roughly doubling the known number of these mysterious free-roaming worlds. A team of researchers found a collection of at least 70 exoplanets without parent stars — the largest single group of ...

SpaceX flight sets record for most orbital launches from Space Coast in a year

The liftoff of a SpaceX cargo ship on the way to the International Space Station early Tuesday was the 31st and final orbital launch from Florida's Space Coast in 2021, setting a new record for the most space missions to depart from the spaceport in a ...

Mars and Earth likely formed from collisions of moon-sized rocks

Meteorites provided answers to a long-standing mystery about the origins of inner solar system planets. An artist's depiction of an asteroid hitting Earth. (Image credit: NASA/Don Davis). Earth and Mars likely arose from collisions between giant ...

Comet Leonard has been dazzling the night sky in a pre-Christmas show

CNN

CNN

The image of Comet Leonard on the left was taken by the European Space Agency and NASA's Solar Orbiter. The image on the right was taken by NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory-A spacecraft.

Why some astronomers once feared NASA's James Webb Space Telescope would never launch

NPR

NPR

The approximately $10 billion telescope, scheduled to launch as early as December 25, is designed to see light from the earliest galaxies to form after the Big Bang, and will let scientists study the atmospheres of planets that orbit distant stars, to ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is fantastic. The Webb will be even better

Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

Larkin Carey, an optical engineer, examines two test mirror segments on a prototype of the James Webb Space Telescope. The Webb will attempt to look back in time 13.7 billion years, a mere 100 million years after the Big Bang as the original stars were ...