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Look: Jaw-dropping image shows the Webb telescope 1 million miles from Earth

The James Webb Space Telescope has reached the L2 point, and its position has been captured in a new photo. It will now spend six months preparing for its mission.

Inverse

Why SpaceX crashing into the Moon could actually be good for science

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket back in 2015, and its second stage is on course to hit the Moon. The DSCOVR craft stage could send up lunar regolith.

Inverse

Webb Telescope Reaches Final Destination, a Million Miles from Earth

The James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its cosmic parking spot a million miles away, bringing it a step closer to its mission to unravel the mysteries of the Universe, NASA said Monday. At around 2:00 pm Eastern Time (1900 GMT), the observatory fired its thrusters for five minutes…

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James Webb Space Telescope reaches its final destination — 1 million miles from Earth

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has settled into its orbit around the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or L2.

Inverse

NASA's new space telescope reaches destination in solar orbit

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, designed to give the world an unprecedented glimpse of infant galaxies in the early stages of the universe, arrived at its gravitational parking spot in orbit around the sun on Monday, nearly a million miles from Earth.

Reuters

NASA reveals new science mission timeline for the James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Sapce Telescope has enough fuel to last more than 20 years after using up just 32 percent of the fuel allocated for launch. This extends the mission timeline by four times.

Inverse

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has reached its destination, 1.5 million km from Earth. Here's what happens next

Since its launch on Christmas day, astronomers have eagerly followed the complex deployment and unfurling of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – the largest to ever take to the skies.

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Rocket Lab Venus mission: Launch date and plans for ambitious exploration

Forget Mars: Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck has an ambitious plan to visit Venus to look for life and possibly phosphine. Here's what he plans to do.

Inverse

NASA warns 'hazardous' asteroid twice size of Big Ben heading towards Earth today

The large space rock is considered a 'near Earth object' due to the close approach it will make with our planet.

Daily Record

NASA’s New Space Telescope Nears Destination in Solar Orbit

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, designed to give the world an unprecedented glimpse into the earliest stages of the universe, neared its gravitational parking space on Monday in orbit around the sun, almost 1 million miles from Earth. With a final course-correcting maneuver by on-board rocket thrusters set for 2…

Asharq Al-Awsat

How a key Webb Telescope target could finally answer why we are here

The TRAPPIST-1 system is strangely similar and yet very different to our own Solar System. Here's why the James Webb Space Telescope will study the system in detail.

Inverse

Space helicopter grounded on Mars for first time in history as dust cloud covers planet

NASA was forced to ground the 19th flight of its Ingenuity helicopter when a massive dust cloud stretched across the northern and southern hemispheres of the red planet

Daily Mirror

Egyptian Researcher Spends 2 Days in -50 Degrees In the South Pole

The Egyptian Graduate Research Assistant at the Caltech Institute, Ahmed Soliman, spent two days inside a tent in -50 degrees weather in the South Pole. Soliman is also a research assistant at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He has been in the South Pole for the last four months as…

Asharq Al-Awsat

How fast is Earth moving?

Earth is moving much faster than it seems.

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What is the speed of light?

The speed of light puts a speed limit on matter, lets us peer back into the history of our universe, and has deep implications for physics and space travel.

Inverse

The Webb telescope reaches its final deployment challenge

The James Webb Space Telescope finished deploying all 18 of its mirror segments Wednesday, leaving one last task before it takes up its deep space post.

Space

The 10 most Earth-like exoplanets

Scientists have found more than 5,000 exoplanets since the first such world was confirmed orbiting a sunlike star in 1995. We explore the ones most similar to Earth.

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How long does it take to get to Mars?

We explore how long it takes to get to Mars and the factors that affect a journey to the Red Planet.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX Sends Another 49 Starlink Satellites To Space, Reusable Falcon 9 Lands Back On Earth

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk-owned SpaceX on Tuesday successfully launched 49 more Starlink satellites to earth’s low orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Axios

NASA estimates Tonga volcano exploded with force of 5-6 megatons of TNT equivalent

Scientists warn ash posing significant health threat.

Inverse

Almost there: Webb telescope is 90 percent of the way to its destination

As of Tuesday afternoon, the James Webb Space Telescope was more than 93 percent of the way to its operating orbit around Lagrangian Point 2.

Inverse

The Webb Telescope is uniquely able to find potentially habitable worlds — here's why

NASA astrophysicist Knicole Colón sat down with Inverse to explain how the Webb will start its first year of science looking at 70 exoplanets and how it may discover more.

Axios

A new NASA astronaut corps for the next era in space

A new report urges NASA to re-examine its astronaut corps.

Daily Record

NASA warns huge asteroid larger than world's tallest building to pass Earth this week

NASA, who have been tracking the space rock for decades, say that it measures in at over a kilometre-wide.

Irish Mirror

Asteroid bigger than any building on Earth set to sail past planet

The asteroid is more than a kilometre wide

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