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Telescope reaches its final destination a million miles from Earth
Ashley Strickland, CNN | Posted Jan. 24 - 9:21 p.m.
The James Webb Space Telescope has reached its final destination, almost a month after launch.
SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship on way back to Earth with scientific investigations, medical research
Claudia Dominguez and Alaa Elassar, CNN | Posted Jan. 23 - 1:25 p.m.
SpaceX's unmanned Dragon cargo ship successfully undocked from the International Space Station on Sunday morning and is making its return to Earth.
Out of this world: 555.55-carat black diamond lands in Dubai
Associated Press | Posted Jan. 17 - 5:25 p.m.
Auction house Sotheby's Dubai has unveiled a diamond that's literally from out of this world.
NASA will launch mission to an unexplored world in 2022
Ashley Strickland, CNN | Posted Jan. 2 - 8:15 a.m.
Some of the most exciting space missions are ready to kick off in 2022.
Utah researchers worked on James Webb Space Telescope, plan to use it
Mike Anderson, KSL-TV | Posted Dec. 27 - 10:02 p.m.
The James Webb telescope launched just a few days ago and some Utah researchers played a role in bringing it to reality and signed up for research time on it.
NASA launches revolutionary space telescope to give glimpse of early universe
Steve Gorman, Reuters | Posted Dec. 25 - 8:19 a.m.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, built to give the world a glimpse of the universe as it existed when the first galaxies formed, was launched by rocket early Saturday from South America's northeastern coast, opening a new era of astronomy.
Hubble telescope's bigger, more powerful successor to soar
Marcia Dunn, Associated Press | Posted Dec. 21 - 7:22 a.m.
The Hubble Space Telescope's successor is a time-traveling wonder capable of peering back to within a hair's breadth of the dawn of the universe. And it's finally on the brink of flight.
NASA solar probe becomes first spacecraft to 'touch' the sun
Ashley Strickland, CNN | Posted Dec. 14 - 10:00 p.m.
The Parker Solar Probe has successfully flown through the sun's corona, or upper atmosphere, to sample particles and our star's magnetic fields.
Work and play in space? NASA awards $415.6 million for new space hubs
Eric M. Johnson, Reuters | Posted Dec. 4 - 7:52 p.m.
NASA announced this week it has awarded $415.6 million to billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, stalwart contractor Northrop Grumman Corp and venture-backed Nanoracks to develop privately-owned and operated commercial space stations.
NASA launches spacecraft to test asteroid defense concept
John Antczak, Associated Press | Posted Nov. 24 - 9:17 a.m.
NASA launched a spacecraft Tuesday night on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth.
NASA, SpaceX launch 4 more astronauts into orbit on flight to space station
Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman, Reuters | Posted Nov. 10 - 10:24 p.m.
NASA and private rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit late on Wednesday, sending a veteran spacewalker, two younger crewmates chosen for future lunar missions and a German materials scientist to the International Space Station.
NASA discovers first possible planet outside our galaxy
Amy Woodyatt, CNN | Posted Oct. 26 - 9:41 p.m.
Scientists may have detected signs of a planet transiting a star outside of the Milky Way, in what could be the first planet ever to be discovered outside our galaxy.
