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By Katherine Schauer and Danny Baird, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center August 8, 2022Illustration of Lunar IceCube in orbit investigating lunar ice. Credit: Morehead State UniversityLunar IceCube, <span…

Even reaching this point had taken decades of planning, threatened cancellations, delays upon delays, a pandemic and a round of harrowing reverse origami that was needed to unfold the telescope in deep space without breaking it. In…

As a New Yorker, I'd say trying to spot a star from Times Square is a fool's errand. To catch even the faintest glimpse of one, you'd have to squint past fluorescent street lamps, flashing billboards, stock market tickers and other…

Nearly two years ago, NASA made history when its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly to collect a regolith sample from the surface of the asteroid. While the mission won’t return to Earth , NASA shared new information about the celestial…

It was on Independence Day 25 years ago that a little rover named after a Civil War abolitionist parachuted and tumbled to the Red Planet's surface on airbags.NASA's first-ever Mars rover, dubbed Sojourner, touched down in Chryse…

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft deploying its solar arrays. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterBeginning on May 6 and continuing through June 16, <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt"…

A small NASA-financed spacecraft launched from New Zealand on Tuesday, kicking off the space agency’s plans to send astronauts back to the moon in a few years.The spacecraft, called CAPSTONE, is about the size of a microwave oven. It…

NASA’s new powerful space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, got pelted by a larger than expected micrometeoroid at the end of May, causing some detectable damage to one of the spacecraft’s 18 primary mirror segments. The…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrup GrummanThese first images from the James Webb Space Telescope will mark the beginning of Webb’s science operations, in which excited astronomers…

Pam Melroy, NASA’s deputy administrator, visits the Psyche spacecraft undergoing processing May 19 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA-JPL/Wes Kuykendall The launch of NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission, which was set for…