Shortly after 9 a.m. EST today (December 30, 2021), the Webb team completed deployment of…
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With Webb’s first major structural deployments completed and the observatory’s Deployable Tower Assembly extended, we…
Yesterday afternoon, the Webb team successfully extended the observatory’s Deployable Tower Assembly (DTA), creating critical…
The astronauts and cosmonauts of Expedition 66 worked throughout Wednesday on U.S. and Russian spacesuits.…
NASA’s Webb telescope now has enough fuel for well beyond a decade of science, thanks…
Webb completed its critical first burn, MCC-1a, guiding it toward L2. The burn was deliberately…
The Expedition 66 crew members continue unpacking the SpaceX Cargo Dragon vehicle and initiating brand…
What’s it like landing on Mars? Tough! But every time we land, we learn more.…
The Eagle, Omega, Trifid, and Lagoon Nebulae trace a spur jutting from the Milky Way’s…
A new video looks back on the six-wheeled scientist’s first 10 months on the Red…
Webb is beginning to resemble the form it will take when it is fully deployed…
Early this afternoon the Webb mission operations team concluded the deployment of the first of…
At 7:20 pm EST – 60 hours after liftoff — Webb’s second mid-course correction burn…
We sure are — all in the name of planetary defense. The DART mission is…
The Coalsack Nebula (Caldwell 99) is a vast dark nebula near the Southern Cross, about…
The Libyan Desert Is Often Cited as a Mars Analog The vast Libyan Desert stretches…
Four cavities in the hot gas of a single galaxy cluster have been found. Astronomers…
https://youtu.be/TWBXzlVbVI8 The James Webb Space Telescope lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s…