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Did you ever want to see an alien world? A planet orbiting a distant star, light years from the Sun? Well, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just returned its first-ever picture of just that – a planet orbiting a distant star.

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LOS ANGELES — It's been 45 years since NASA's Voyager spacecraft blasted off from Earth, but the twin explorers still call home from billions of miles away.

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ORLANDO, Fla. — All signs were pointing to optimism for NASA’s second shot at a moonshot on Saturday, but a familiar foe forced another scrub for the Artemis I flight from Kennedy Space Center. Now the rocket may be forced to head back to the Vehicle Assembly Building with its…

ORLANDO, Fla. — All signs were pointing to optimism for NASA’s second shot at a moonshot on Saturday, but a familiar foe forced another scrub for the Artemis I flight from Kennedy Space Center, and now the rocket may be forced to head back to the Vehicle Assembly Building with…

ORLANDO, Fla. — After a second postponement, several Artemis spectators were understandably disappointed but said they supported NASA’s decision regardless of how far they may have traveled.

Fuel leak ruins NASA’s second bid at launching the SLS, delaying the debut of its Moon-to-Mars mission by weeks.

Second time was not the charm for the first-ever launch of NASA's towering moon rocket.

NASA's TESS satellite found a rare exoplanet covered in deep oceans, making it an excellent candidate for Webb to take a closer look at and learn more about habitability.