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NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins to set new record for Black women in space: report

Watkins, who is a part of NASA's Artemis program — an effort to return humans to the moon — will serve as a mission specialist, spending about six months living and working on the orbiting lab. This will be Watkins' first flight to space.

NASA hopes James Webb Space Telescope will unlock secrets of 'super-Earths' and hot rocky worlds

"In our solar system, we have the inner rocky worlds and outer gas planets — but the most common exoplanets we see are actually in between," Natasha Batalha, a research scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center in California said in a statement.

The alignment of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has begun

In the past day or so, for the first time, photons from distant stars traveled through the entire telescope and were detected by Webb's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument, NASA officials said. This was a huge moment in itself, and it lays the ...

Astronomers spot signs of planets forming around dying stars

Astronomy Magazine

Astronomy Magazine

Planets form around young stars in protoplanetary disks, as pictured in this artist's concept — but new observations indicate that dying stars may also host similar planet-forming disks. ESO/L. Calçada. When a Sun-like star exhausts the helium fuel in ...

Live coverage: Starlink satellites set for launch today from Kennedy Space Center

Spaceflight Now

Spaceflight Now

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will launch SpaceX's next batch of 49 Starlink broadband satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below.

Ice that took roughly 2000 years to form on Mt. Everest has melted in around 25

CNN

CNN

(CNN) The highest glacier on the world's tallest mountain is losing decades worth of ice every year because of human-induced climate change, a new study shows. The findings serve as a warning that rapid glacier melt at some of the Earth's highest ...

Juno and Hubble data reveal electromagnetic 'tug-of-war' lights up Jupiter's upper atmosphere

Composite image of two different Hubble observations. The aurorae were photographed during a series of Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph far-ultraviolet-light observations taking place as NASA's Juno spacecraft approaches and enters into orbit ...

New company run by former NASA leader aims to build robotic outpost near the Moon

The Verge

The Verge

A new startup run by a former acting NASA administrator hopes to capitalize on the recent zeal for lunar space exploration by building robotic outposts and spacecraft to send to space near the Moon. Their goal is to create a fleet of robotic helpers ...

Leftover SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage will impact the lunar surface in early March

Europe's Ariane 5 delivered the James Webb Space Telescope to L2, the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point—'behind' instead of in 'front of' our planet—but after separating from Webb the upper stage used all its remaining fuel to escape the Earth-moon system ...

Watch live as SpaceX launches more than four dozen Starlink satellites today

SpaceX is ready to send another batch of its Starlink internet satellites into orbit, and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket is poised to launch 49 Starlink spacecraft from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida at 1:13 p.m. EST ...