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These are the space missions to watch in 2022

SpaceX's 1st orbital Starship launch to space · Private astronauts fly to International Space Station with Axiom Space · Moon landing by Houston's Intuitive Machines · NASA's SLS megarocket launches 1st moon mission · Starliner's second uncrewed test mission.

The 10 biggest exoplanet discoveries of 2021

For example, learning about massive gas giants can boost our understanding about how Jupiter, one of Earth's major shields from cosmic strikes, got to be where it is now located. Searching for rocky planets in habitable zones around their distinct parent ...

White House directs NASA to extend International Space Station operations through 2030

The White House has given NASA a New Year's Eve "go" to continue operations on board the International Space Station through 2030, granting the orbital outpost a six-year life extension. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson was directed by the Biden-Harris ...

Test launch of Russia's heavy-lift Angara rocket marred by upper stage failure

The Angara A5 rocket launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, located in Russia's Arkhangelsk region about 500 miles (800 kilometers) north of Moscow, at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT) on Dec. 27, according to Russia's Ministry of Defense.

Why the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield deployment takes so long

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is three days into the deployment of its massive sunshield — and it still has about three days to go. The $10 billion Webb launched on Christmas Day (Dec. 25) to seek out heat signals from the early universe.

Meteor showers, eclipses, full moons: All of the reasons to look up in 2022

CNN

CNN

(CNN) Total lunar eclipses, a multitude of meteor showers and supermoons will light up the sky in 2022. The new year is sure to be a sky-gazer's delight with plenty of ...

Webb telescope begins unfurling tennis court-sized sunshield

The space agency said mission controllers at the Space Telescope Science Institute took extra steps to confirm that a sunshield cover had fully rolled up before proceeding with the first mid-boom deployment. "Switches that should ...

2021 was a huge year for space exploration. 2022 could be even bigger

The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times

After years of development, and billions of dollars spent, NASA is finally gearing up to launch its Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule, which are designed to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since Apollo.

SpaceX Starship Launch Headlines The Most Anticipated Space Missions For 2022

Tech Times

Tech Times

Since then, almost every spacecraft that has been tasked to carry big payloads to orbit (human crews among them) has all been single-use, like the Russian Soyuz craft that ISS astronauts have been using, according to the ESA.

Digital Trends

Check out these jaw-dropping space images from 2021

Digital Trends

This is the gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 691 located in the constellation of Aries some 120 million light-years from Earth, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 691 was discovered by astronomer William Herschel in 1786 and is calculated to be 130,000 ...