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Rohan Naidu was sitting at home with his girlfriend when he found the galaxy that nearly broke cosmology. As his algorithm dug through early images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) late one night in July, Naidu shot to…

A flexible flight plan On Aug. 27, 2016, Juno experienced its first close approach of Jupiter, or perijove, sweeping just 2,600 miles (4,200 km) above Jupiter’s clouds, closer than any spacecraft in history. This flyby provided our…

The pressurized capsule of the SpaceX Cargo Dragon resupply ship with its nose cone open is pictured as the vehicle departs the International Space Station on January 23, 2022. Credit: NASAWhile the International Space Station (ISS) was…

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"…

NASA held a press conference Monday morning to discuss the precise alignment of the Webb Space Telescope and the spacecraft’s upcoming scientific operations. The space agency also released images from the telescope that put Webb’s…

The Psyche spacecraft sits in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after traveling across the country from a clean room…

Staring out into space is a time-tested technique for making long journeys pass more quickly, but not one often applied at the scale of the solar system.That's exactly the approach a team of scientists have turned to in hopes of someday…

A view of the Falcon 9 second stage as imaged by a ground telescope in Italy during the evening of February 6, 2022. Image: Virtual Telescope Project/Gianluca MasiWell here’s something you don’t see everyday: A discarded Falcon 9 second…

The American space agency NASA says a spacecraft has entered the sun’s outermost atmosphere for the first time. The Parker Solar Probe traveled through the solar atmosphere’s outer edge – known as the corona – in April, scientists…