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12 amazing James Webb Space Telescope discoveries of 2022

1. Webb as greatest breakthrough; 2. Pillars of Creation; 3. Exoplanet image; 4. Phantom Galaxy; 5. Wolf-Rayet star ripples; 6. Most distant galaxies; 7. Exoplanet atmosphere; 8. Titan's clouds; 9. Southern Ring Nebula; 10. Brown dwarf with sand clouds; 11 ...

NASA ponders SpaceX astronaut rescue as backup after Soyuz leak: report

NASA might use a SpaceX spacecraft to rescue three space station crew members depending on a leaky Soyuz to get home, a report suggests. The Soyuz spacecraft on the International Space Station suffered a severe ...

Russia's 'final decision' on leaky Soyuz spacecraft at space station to come in January: reports

Russian space officials will make their "final decision" in January about whether to let a leaky Soyuz bear its crew back to Earth, according to state media. The Russian federal space agenc Roscosmos ...

Watch SpaceX launch an Israeli reconnaissance satellite in its final flight of 2022 tonight

A Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX will send an Israeli imaging Earth satellite into space overnight early Friday (Dec. 30), and you can watch online for free. Liftoff is set for 2:17 a.m. EST (11:17 p.m. PST on Dec. 29 or 0717 GMT) and coverage will be ...

Stunning SpaceX rocket launch lights up predawn sky over Florida (photos)

This was the 11th flight for the Falcon 9 first stage that flew on Wednesday. According to SpaceX, the booster has launched several satellites, five previous Starlink missions and has flown two private astronaut crews to space. Check out some amazing ...

High-quality microresonators in the longwave infrared based on native germanium

New technology is providing better optical sensors, which are important for electronics, including devices that analyze chemicals using light. "We've built the lowest loss whispering gallery mode microresonator out there for the longwave ...

2 possibly Earth-like worlds, just 16 light-years away

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The two new planets – GJ 1002b and GJ 1002c – orbit the red dwarf star GJ 1002, less than 16 light-years from Earth. That is very close in terms of stellar distances. Both planets have masses similar to Earth and orbit within the star's habitable zone.

Watch the latest water satellite unfold itself in space

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite launched into Earth orbit on Friday, Dec. 16, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in central California, and engineers are working to prepare the mission to begin measuring the height of water on ...

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11 amazing Earth discoveries from 2022

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Earth core structure illustrated with geological layers according to scale. Our planet revealed some amazing secrets in 2022. (Image credit: Johan Swanepoel/Alamy Stock Photo).

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The night sky doesn't take a holiday. The moon will pass in front of the planet Uranus, creating a lunar occultation, which is similar to an eclipse. Uranus will disappear behind the unilluminated side of the moon and reappear from behind the illuminated ...