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Space.com

Thankfully, the effort was well worthwhile, with a plethora of incredible results from NASA’s newest observatory in its first six months of science operations. But what comes next? John Mather, a Nobel-winning astronomer …

CNN

Part of the excitement around the James Webb Space Telescope is its ability to peer inside the atmospheres of potentially habitable planets and discover new worlds. This week, the space observatory certainly delivered. Other worlds.

Space.com

Astrophotographers around the world have been watching the comet as it crosses the northeastern sky. According to NASA, the best time to search for the comet is at dawn. You read our guide to observing comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) to learn how to spot it in …

Space.com

SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket will be back in action on Saturday (Jan. 14), and you can watch the liftoff live. A Falcon Heavy is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida Saturday at 5:55 p.m. EST (2255 GMT) on a …

Mashable

It’s a golden age in the discovery of worlds beyond our solar system, called exoplanets. NASA has confirmed well over 5,000 of these planets. Among the most prevalent is a class of worlds dubbed “super-Earths.” They are worlds ranging from some 30 to 70 …

Phys.Org

Neutrinos are sometimes called “ghost particles” because they barely interact with other matter—around 100 trillion are estimated to pass through our bodies every second. Since neutrinos were first theorized in 1930, scientists have …

Smithsonian

Seven astronauts currently live aboard the ISS, which orbits Earth every 90 minutes at roughly 250 miles above the ground. Last September, two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut traveled to the orbiting laboratory in Russia’s Soyuz MS-22 …

Mashable

Scientists have spotted a strange new world. It’s almost exactly the size of Earth. It’s rocky. It’s relatively close (41 light-years away). And, for the first time, astronomers used the most powerful space telescope ever built — the James Webb Space …

Reuters

Jan 14 (Reuters) – Russia’s space agency Roscosmos announced new contingency plans on Saturday for the three crew of a damaged capsule docked to the International Space Station, saying the U.S. member of the trio would return to Earth in a separate …

Livescience.com

The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a star being stripped and stretched into a doughnut shape as a black hole devours it. The supermassive black hole, located 300 million light-years from Earth at …