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China has moon's south pole in its sights with 3 missions launching this decade

China has formally approved three missions targeting the south pole of the moon, with the first to launch around 2024. The missions dubbed Chang'e 6, Chang'e 7 and Chang'e 8 will launch across the 2020s, each with different goals and an array of ...

Russia launches heavy-lift Angara rocket on 3rd test flight, but misses intended orbit: reports

A year after its last launch, Russia's newest rocket lifted off again — and things didn't go entirely according to plan. The third test flight of the Angara A5 rocket took off from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia on Monday (Dec. 27).

Skywatcher spots James Webb Space Telescope from Earth in telescope photos

Four days later, on Dec. 29, astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project spotted Webb traveling through space using a robotic telescope. Masi combined some of his imagery into a short ...

Webb telescope spends '29 days on the edge' as it comes to life in space

CNN

CNN

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. (CNN) Heading to space was just the beginning for the James Webb Space Telescope.

A World Divided by Covid and Other Ills United to Explore Space

The New York Times

The New York Times

America was a nation divided, but that did not stop it from building parts of the James Webb Space Telescope in a red state and testing them in a blue one. The European Union and Russia were facing off over Ukraine and other issues this year, ...

Hubble Space Telescope spots star cluster glittering in a nearby galaxy (photo)

NGC 1755 is in good company: the Pleiades is another example of a small stellar cluster.

Spaceflight Now

Telescope tower extends on Webb observatory

Spaceflight Now

Webb's Deployable Tower Assembly moved the telescope's mirrors, still folded up in their launch configuration, away from the spacecraft bus. The telescope structure contains Webb's 18 gold-coated hexagonal primary mirror segments and four infrared ...

Cosmic history can explain the properties of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars

The astronomers made use of a spread of simulation to explore different possibilities of inner planet evolution. Our solar system's inner regions are a rare, but possible outcome of that evolution. The results have been published in Nature Astronomy.

Possible chemical leftovers from early Earth sit near the core

Let's take a journey into the depths of the Earth, down through the crust and mantle nearly to the core. We'll use seismic waves to show the way, since they echo through the planet following an earthquake and reveal its internal structure like radar ...

Unimaginable diversity of life discovered beneath Antarctic ice shelf

Livescience.com

Livescience.com

Deep beneath Antarctica's ice shelves, researchers have discovered dozens of life-forms thriving on a tiny patch of the seafloor —— an unprecedented level of species diversity for an environment that has never seen sunlight.